antediluvial

1. 1.

   of or relating to the period before the biblical flood

   “antediluvian man”

   Synonymsantediluvian

Questions about antediluvial

What does antediluvial mean?

antediluvial means "of or relating to the period before the biblical flood".

How many syllables are in antediluvial?

antediluvial has 6 syllables: an-te-di-lu-vi-al. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for antediluvial?

Close synonyms include antediluvian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antediluvial a common word?

antediluvial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.