Stone Age

adjective

Definition of Stone Agenext
as in archaic
having passed its time of use or usefulness Stone Age attitudes about the raising of children

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Stone Age
  1. archaic
  2. obsolete
  3. medieval
  4. antiquated
  5. prehistoric
  6. dated
  7. old
Adjective
  • In this still, Ella Hunt (who plays Gilda Radner in the film) takes a ride on the archaic crane.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Before cuneiform, however, there was an archaic script using abstract pictographic signs called proto-cuneiform.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of archaic
Adjective
  • General and administrative expenses increased to $12.9 million from $11.9 million, primarily due to costs from the company's bi-annual national summit and obsolete inventory expenses.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • However, this rapid transformation also stirs anxiety, with employees worrying their jobs may become obsolete.
    Cory McNeley, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of obsolete
Adjective
  • The architecture preserves this history from the medieval Islamic Kasbah of the Udayas to the Colonial-era neighborhoods and beyond.
    Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
  • During a proceeding, for example, the College of Cardinals stays in the Casa Santa Marta, an ornate, medieval dormitory where they are fed and tended to by an order of nuns.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of medieval
Adjective
  • Such a prospect is one that the city’s antiquated water orthodoxy has never managed to fathom.
    Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Ahead of Election Day Cyclorama: The Shape of Things contains a wide spread of imagery: footage on both pro- and anti-segregation riots, recordings from antiquated circus acts featuring a dancing elephant, silhouettes of what appear to be Southern belles in hoop skirts that laugh over tea.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of antiquated
Adjective
  • Uncle Jack Cassidy lives on the island which is filled with new dinosaur species, giant insects and prehistoric amphibians.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Godzilla: Dressing up as a prehistoric dinosaurian monster never gets old.
    Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of prehistoric
Adjective
  • The Melting Pot has less oozing cheese and might even feel less dated.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 July 2024
  • The candidate experience is very dated for a lot of clients.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of dated
Adjective
  • The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of old
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