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 antediluvian [,æntidi'lu:viәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 大洪水前的, 陈旧的, 过时的

n. 大洪水以前的人, 老迈的人


  1. His ideas are positively antediluvian!
    他的思想是纯粹的老古董!
  2. His ideas are positively antediluvian!
    他的思想是纯粹的老古董!
  3. The New Atlantis, interest in Atlantis then languished, until, some2,200 years after Plato, the1882 publication of Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Minnesota politician and sometime crankish writer Ignatius Donnelly.
    新大西洲》,对亚特兰蒂斯比苦思更为兴趣,直到柏拉图之后2,200年,1882年出版了有关亚特兰蒂斯的出版物:是由明尼苏达州政客和古怪的作家伊格内修斯所写的大洪水之前的上古世界。


antediluvian
[ noun ]
  1. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

  2. <noun.person>
  3. a very old person

  4. <noun.person>
[ adj ]
  1. of or relating to the period before the biblical flood

  2. <adj.pert>
    antediluvian man
  3. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

  4. <adj.all>
    a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
    antediluvian ideas
    archaic laws


antediluvian \an`te*di*lu"vi*an\
([a^]n`t[-e]*d[i^]*l[=u]"v[i^]*an), a.
Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's
time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.
One who lived before the Deluge.

  1. MY observation, last week, that some people regarded Country Life magazine as antediluvian, mimsy mamsy, camp and affected has drawn hundreds of protesting letters from every inglenook and burrow in rural Britain.
  2. Expending my best energies on the second-best.' No doubt the latest collection of essays will be dismissed as antediluvian, anachronistic, out-of-touch with the current world.
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