Antique \An*tique"\, a. [F., fr. L. antiquus old, ancient,
   equiv. to anticus, from ante before. Cf. Antic.]
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   1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue.
      In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of
      Greece and Rome.
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            For the antique world excess and pride did hate.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of
      time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.
      "Antique words." --Spenser.
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   3. Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of
      Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."
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   4. Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written antic.]
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   Syn: Ancient; antiquated; obsolete; antic; old-fashioned;
        old. See Ancient.
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	Antique \An*tique"\, 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.
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         Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. --Byron.
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	antique
    adj 1: made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its
           age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"
    2: out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance";
       "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn:
       antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p),
       outmoded, passe, passee]
    3: belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old
       customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to
       complete darkness" [syn: age-old, antique]
    n 1: an elderly man [syn: old-timer, oldtimer, gaffer,
         old geezer, antique]
    2: any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like
       produced in a former period and valuable because of its
       beauty or rarity
    v 1: shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"
    2: give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture" [syn:
       antique, antiquate]

	

	194 Moby Thesaurus words for "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