Meaning and example
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
A ramshackle antediluvian tenement
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.524 places archaic in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 94.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
ubiquitousCommon
- Known by
- 94%
being present everywhere at once
tiradeCommon
- Known by
- 94%
a speech of violent denunciation
idiosyncrasyCommon
- Known by
- 94.2%
a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
propensityCommon
- Known by
- 94.2%
an inclination to do something
mitigateCommon
- Known by
- 94.2%
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.