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