antique

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: an=tique

CIDE DICTIONARY

antique, a. [F., fr. L. antiquus old, ancient, equiv. to anticus, from ante before. Cf. Antic.].

•  Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.  [1913 Webster]

  "For the antique world excess and pride did hate."  [1913 Webster]
•  Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
•  Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's “Castle of Indolence.”  [1913 Webster]
•  Odd; fantastic.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; obsolete; antic; old-fashioned; old. See Ancient.

antique, n. [F. See Antique, a. ].

 In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.  [1913 Webster]
"Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

antique, n., adj., & v.
--n. an object of considerable age, esp. an item of furniture or the decorative arts having a high value.
--adj.
1 of or existing from an early date.
2 old-fashioned, archaic.
3 of ancient times.
--v.tr. (antiques, antiqued, antiquing) give an antique appearance to (furniture etc.) by artificial means.

Etymology

F antique or L antiquus, anticus former, ancient f. ante before

THESAURUS

antique

Gothic, Methuselah, Victorian, abandoned, abiding, abjured, age-long, age-old, aged, ageless, ago, ancestral, ancient, ancient manuscript, antediluvian, antiquated, antiquity, archaic, archaism, artifact, auld, back number, bibelot, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, cave painting, chronic, classical, collectable, conservative, constant, continuing, curio, dad, dated, dateless, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, deserted, discontinued, disused, diuturnal, dodo, done with, durable, elapsed, elder, elderly, enduring, eolith, evergreen, expired, extinct, finished, fogy, forgotten, fossil, fossilized, fud, fuddy-duddy, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, granny, grown old, hardy, has-been, heirloom, hoary, immemorial, immutable, intransient, inveterate, irrecoverable, lapsed, lasting, legendary, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, longhair, macrobiotic, matriarch, medieval, mezzolith, microlith, mid-Victorian, mossback, neolith, no more, not worth saving, objet d'art, obsolescent, obsolete, of long duration, of long standing, of old, of other times, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-fashioned, old-time, old-timer, old-timey, old-world, olden, oldfangled, on the shelf, out, out of date, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over, paleolith, passe, passed, passed away, past, past use, patriarch, pensioned off, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, petrification, petrified, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, pop, pops, rarity, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, relinquished, reliquiae, remaining, remains, renounced, resigned, retired, ruin, ruins, run out, sempervirent, square, stable, starets, staying, steadfast, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, survival, timeless, timeworn, tough, traditional, traditionalist, unfading, vanished, venerable, vestige, vital, worn-out, wound up

ROGET THESAURUS

antique

Oldness

N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.