ancient

ancient
adj.
VERBS
be, look
ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.
incredibly
positively

The man looked positively ancient.

Ancient is used with these nouns: ↑ancestor, ↑art, ↑belief, ↑building, ↑castle, ↑city, ↑civilization, ↑craft, ↑culture, ↑curse, ↑custom, ↑dynasty, ↑empire, ↑enemy, ↑festival, ↑forest, ↑goddess, ↑Greek, ↑Hebrew, ↑heritage, ↑historian, ↑history, ↑homeland, ↑kingdom, ↑language, ↑legend, ↑magic, ↑manor, ↑manuscript, ↑monastery, ↑monument, ↑mystery, ↑myth, ↑mythology, ↑nation, ↑origin, ↑palace, ↑past, ↑philosopher, ↑philosophy, ↑prophecy, ↑relic, ↑religion, ↑remains, ↑remedy, ↑ritual, ↑rivalry, ↑ruin, ↑scripture, ↑sculpture, ↑settlement, ↑shrine, ↑site, ↑statue, ↑superstition, ↑symbol, ↑tablet, ↑teaching, ↑temple, ↑text, ↑time, ↑tower, ↑town, ↑track, ↑tradition, ↑treasure, ↑truth, ↑university, ↑village, ↑warrior, ↑wisdom, ↑wood, ↑world, ↑writer, ↑writing

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