Current
Current adjective - Accepted, used, or practiced by most people.
Prehistoric is an antonym for current.
Prehistoric
Prehistoric adjective - Having passed its time of use or usefulness.
Usage example: prehistoric notions about mental illness that have no place in today's world
Current is an antonym for prehistoric in before recorded history topic.
Nearby Word: prehistory
Both words in one sentence
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It's possibly similar to prehistoric Earth's "Oxygen Catastrophe" or, more ominously, the current runaway Greenhouse Effect.
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One "Treehouse of Horror" special has Homer repeatedly bouncing from his current time to the prehistoric era, and was told about the butterfly effect and its dangerous effects on the timeline.
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A Buffy the Vampire Slayer short story had a snobbish Dickensian Watcher visited by a prehistoric Slayer and the most recently deceased Slayer to encourage him to be more understanding of his current charge.
Source: Yet Another Christmas Carol
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