A Word With You
January 5th, 2010
an⋅te⋅di⋅lu⋅vi⋅an
–adjective
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1. |
of or belonging to the period before the Flood. Gen. 7, 8. |
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2. |
very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive: antediluvian ideas. |
–noun
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3. |
a person who lived before the Flood. |
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4. |
a very old or old-fashioned person or thing. |
Origin:
1640–50; ante- + L dīluvi(um) a flood, deluge + -an
I thought I would begin the new year with an old word. This is another one of those words that is not often used in everyday conversation. And should be. It’s a useful little word, that in and of itself is the very definition of old. But how much more effective is antediluvian than just old. It also makes a cool insult. “Still using dial-up instead of high-speed? How antediluvian of you.”
Like most cool words, it’s a Ante word that is an interesting taken apart as it is in its entirety. It literally means what its components mean. You gotta love a word that is so self-contained.
Grammar Punk™ Sentence:
N I 5 ? Adverb | antediluvian
Write a Grammar Punk™ sentence that contains 5 words that contain the letters N and I, a question mark, an adverb and the word antediluvian.
With a little shriek of horror, Veronica stared at her reflection in the beauty salon window; how had her hairstyle become so insidiously antediluvian?
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