Ancient and Unchanged

Ancient

Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

Unchanged and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unchanged" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Unchanged

Unchanged adjective - Not made or become different.

Ancient and unchanged are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Unchanged".

Nearby Words: unchanging, unchangeable

Both words in one sentence

  • They pride themselves on keeping it "pure" and unchanged over the millennia — so naturally two native speakers are dismayed to find they cannot read a very important set of inscriptions in ancient Kaled'a'in.
  • It is also inferred in many pseudosciences like astrology and some alternative medicines: that these ancient knowledges and traditions have been around for so long, unchanged, must mean that they are better than modern science!
  • And as for knowing how the ancient speakers of the Indo-European languages talked, you need to listen to a Lithuanian villager talking (the Lithuanian language, separated by thousands of miles from Sanskrit, retains nearly identical words for many things, unchanged for millenia.)
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