archaist's Usage Examples:

Most of the compositions in the literary language, whether old or archaistic, are in a stilted style and often with parallelisms of phrase like those of Hebrew poetry.

There are also remains of the town wall in the "polygonal" style, and above the town are several massive platforms for supporting buildings, in a more archaistic form of this style; these may well belong to the Roman period, and the latter even to the empire.

After this there was a strong archaistic fashion, much like that under Hadrian; in both cases it may have arrested decay, but it did not lift the art up again.

Morris (1895) in imitative metre, and almost unintelligibly archaistic in diction; and C.

Synonyms:

antiquarian, antiquary, expert,

Antonyms:

fat person, introvert, good guy, acquaintance,