Overview of noun antediluvian

The noun antediluvian has 2 senses

• antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch -- (any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge)


• ancient, antediluvian -- (a very old person)

Overview of adj antediluvian

The adj antediluvian has 2 senses

• antediluvian, antediluvial -- (of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man")


• antediluvian, antiquated, archaic -- (so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws")