What is another word for prehistorical?

Pronunciation: [pɹˌiːhɪstˈɒɹɪkə͡l] (IPA)

Prehistorical is an adjective that describes events or things that occurred or existed before recorded history. Some synonyms for prehistorical include ancient, primordial, antediluvian, archaic, and prehistoric. Ancient refers to anything from a distant past that predates even recorded history. Primordial suggests a state that dates back to the very beginnings of existence. Antediluvian describes events or things that existed before the biblical flood. Archaic is a term used to describe anything that belongs to a much earlier period. Finally, prehistoric is a term used to describe anything that predates the use of writing or the invention of recorded language.

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What are the hypernyms for Prehistorical?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for prehistorical?

The word "prehistorical" refers to a time period before the existence of written records or human history. Antonyms for prehistorical, also known as antonyms of prehistoric, would be words describing time periods after the invention of writing, or periods of documented history. Synonyms for this may include historical, modern, contemporary, or present-day. Opposites of prehistorical may also include terms like scientific, technological, or industrial, highlighting the progress made in human history regarding knowledge and progress. Overall, antonyms for prehistorical reflect the vast advancements humankind has undergone from its early days of existence, reflecting significant progress made over the centuries.

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Usage examples for Prehistorical

I ne'er was ingenious at all at divining A word's prehistorical, primitive state, Or finding its root, like a mole, by consigning Its bloom to the turnep-top's sorrowful fate.
"Black Beetles in Amber"
Ambrose Bierce
There has evidently been a fore-time, though it is prehistorical, when, so far as we know, mankind was universally polytheistic; when innumerable rites and worships prevailed without restraint, springing up and contending with each other like the trees in a primeval forest, reflecting a primitive and precarious condition of human society.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
We talk of the education of the masses and what I see is this: they will soon be better educated than we ourselves; for we bring any amount of sense and modern ideas to work on their teaching, while our own prehistorical methods are left severely alone.
"The Spinners"
Eden Phillpotts

Famous quotes with Prehistorical

  • Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.
    Jean M. Auel
  • The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
    James M. Baldwin
  • It took centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding Fathers. The system they established was not based on unlimited majority but on its opposite: on individual rights, which were not to be alienated by majority vote or minority plotting. The individual was not left at the mercy of his neighbors or his leaders: the Constitutional system of checks and balances was scientifically devised to protect him from both. This was the great American achievement—and if concern for the actual welfare of other nations were our present leaders' motive, this is what we should have been teaching the world. Instead, we are deluding the ignorant and the semi-savage by telling them that no political knowledge is necessary—that our system is only a matter of subjective preference—that any prehistorical form of tribal tyranny, gang rule, and slaughter will do just as well, with our sanction and support. It is thus that we encourage the spectacle of Algerian workers marching through the streets [in the 1962 Civil War] and shouting the demand: "Work, not blood!"—without knowing what great knowledge and virtue are required to achieve it. In the same way, in 1917, the Russian peasants were demanding: "Land and Freedom!" But Lenin and Stalin is what they got. In 1933, the Germans were demanding: "Room to live!" But what they got was Hitler. In 1793, the French were shouting: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" What they got was Napoleon. In 1776, the Americans were proclaiming "The Rights of Man"—and, led by political philosophers, they achieved it. No revolution, no matter how justified, and no movement, no matter how popular, has ever succeeded without a political philosophy to guide it, to set its direction and goal.
    Ayn Rand

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