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pre-historic

pre-historic is the alternative form of prehistoric.

Meaning of prehistoric

Adjective

prehistoric (comparative more prehistoric, superlative most prehistoric)

  1. (properly) Of or relating to the epoch before written record.
    • Was it then in a pre-historic time that the Romans wandered into these lands?1832 October, Foreign Quarterly Review, page 369
    Synonyms:
    ante-historic
  2. (inexact or humorous) Ancient; very old, outdated, etc.
    • Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That’s all prehistoric.1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links
    Synonyms:
    antediluvian

Forms of pre-historic

comparativemore pre-historic
superlativemost pre-historic

Questions about pre-historic

What is pre-historic the alternative form of?
Pre-historic is the alternative form of prehistoric.

Words near pre-historic in the dictionary

  1. pre-graduate
  2. Pre-Greek
  3. pre-hexameral
  4. pre-Hilbert space
  5. pre-Hilbert spaces
  6. pre-historic
  7. pre-histories
  8. pre-history
  9. Pre-Hlai
  10. pre-hook
  11. pre-hooks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-historic (page history and authors); prehistoric (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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