prehistoric

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   no longer fashionable

   my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes

2. 2
   adj

   belonging to or existing in times before recorded history

   prehistoric settlements

3. 3
   adj

   of or relating to times before written history

   prehistoric archeology

4. 4
   adj

   Of or relating to the epoch before written record.

   Was it then in a pre-historic time that the Romans wandered into these lands?

5. 5
   adj

   Ancient; very old, outdated, etc.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.

Etymology

From pre- (“before”) + historic, q.v., similar to slightly earlier ante-historic.