(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given the last decade's copyright wars, it's amazing that Pirate Bay survived at all, not just because 10 is antediluvian in internet years.
(2) I give up reading of the hell that criminalisation – abetted by an antediluvian UN – inflicts on the people of Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan and Burma.
(3) Noah has just opened at No 1 at the US box office despite facing a mixed reaction from religious audiences for its fast and loose interpretation of the story of the antediluvian patriarch.
(4) Antediluvian theocracy has had its day, and thinking Talibs know it.
(5) Were these bohemian rooftop-dwellers merely “ur-hipsters”, or antediluvian beatniks, allured by the aesthetics of self-induced poverty?
(6) The two-tiered system predicated on antediluvian beliefs about intelligence and testing does needless and wasteful damage to thousands of children.
(7) They are not anti-politics, just antediluvian, yearning for a politics that has already failed.
(8) Degas was a man of antediluvian attitudes, some of which appear now, as they did to many of his friends, as unconscionable.
(9) The assumption of privacy, of home life as castle, tacitly adopted by Bree, Susan, Lynette and Gaby, and their decisions to choose when and with whom to spill secrets, is being made to look antediluvian by the rising, currently victorious, generations of compulsive sharers.
(10) As a result, the coalition was free to implant its antediluvian economics in the public mind, and Labour was incapable of arguing back.
(11) Noah has been a huge hit in the US, despite controversy over its unorthodox depiction of the antediluvian patriarch.
(12) The antediluvian stuff we hear from Cameron's party is obscene.
(13) Rakoff watches in horror as Judy Blume , the bestselling children's author, takes her business elsewhere, apparently fed up with the agency's antediluvian approach.
(14) When Rakoff met a couple of junior editors from the New Yorker at a rooftop party, they pumped her for all the antediluvian details, such as the fact that Rakoff spent her days pecking away on a Selectric typewriter with the fat headphones of an old Dictaphone attached to her head and that the Agency tracked every detail of its authors' affairs on oversized, specially printed pink index cards.
(15) He continues: "Antediluvian theocracy has had its day and thinking Talibs know it," and adds: "Most Taliban leaders deeply resent their dependence on, and manipulation by, Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI … They yearn to be taken seriously as a credible, national political force."
(16) In practice, though, they're often a bit of an embarrassment – an antediluvian catalogue of Honeys, Pussys and Plentys.
(17) It was an attempt to grab the reins of a complex society with the almost quaintly antediluvian tactics of seizing the state television station and rolling some tanks on to the streets.
(18) We've become a nation of reactionary, antediluvian nitwits, unable to discern the difference between the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare , governed by equally reactionary pols who think nothing of holding our pay checks hostage .
(19) Compared to other countries like the United States or Germany, it's antediluvian."
(20) Today we can view this history with detached irony, as evidence of the antediluvian, a museum-piece that does not require to be confronted since it no longer has the power to threaten.
Diluvium
Definition:
(n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.