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a·nach·ro·nis·tic

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–adjective

pertaining to or containing an anachronism.

Also, a·nach·ro·nis·ti·cal.

[Origin: 1765–75; anachron(ism) + -istic

]

—Related forms

a·nach·ro·nis·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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a·nach·ro·nism Audio Help (ə-nāk'rə-nĭz'əm) Pronunciation Key
n.

The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

[French anachronisme, from New Latin anachronismus, from Late Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizesthai, to be an anachronism : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek khronizein, to take time (from khronos, time).]

a·nach'ro·nis'tic, a·nach'ro·nous (-nəs) adj., a·nach'ro·nis'ti·cal·ly, a·nach'ro·nous·ly adv.

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anachronistic
adjective
chronologically misplaced; "English public schools are anachronistic" [syn: anachronic]

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