antediluvian
       adj 1: of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood;
              "Antediluvian man" [syn: antediluvial]
       2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
          "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian
          ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: antiquated, archaic]
       n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge
            [syn: antediluvian patriarch]
       2: a very old (or old fashioned) person