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   A·nach·ro·nis·tic

   /əˌnakrəˈnistik/

   

   adjective

   • 1. belonging to a period other than that being portrayed: "'Titus' benefits from the effective use of anachronistic elements like cars and loudspeakers"
   • ▪ belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned: "she is rebelling against the anachronistic morality of her parents"

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   • 1. anachronistically adverb

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   What is anachronistic adjective?

   • Definition of anachronistic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary used to describe a person, a custom or an idea that seems old-fashioned and does not belong to the present The daily publication of print media seems anachronistic today. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

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   What does anachronism mean?

   • Anachronism has its roots in Greek chronos, “time,” and ana-, a Greek prefix meaning “up,” “back,” or “again.” Anachronisms historically were sometimes distinguished from parachronisms, chronology errors in which an event is placed later than it occurred.

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   What is an anachronism in modern warfare?

   • something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.

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   What is anachronistic etymology?

   • anachronistic anachronistic is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: anachronism n., ‑istic suffix.

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   anachronistic. used to describe a person, a custom or an idea that seems old-fashioned and does not belong to the present. The daily publication of print media seems anachronistic today. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

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   1. : an error in chronology. especially : a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other. found several anachronisms in the movie. 2. : a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place. especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present.

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   something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare. an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one:

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   5 days ago · You say that something is anachronistic when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned..... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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   Anachronism definition: something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time. See examples of ANACHRONISM used in a sentence.

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   What does the adjective anachronistic mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective anachronistic . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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    Define anachronistic. anachronistic synonyms, anachronistic pronunciation, anachronistic translation, English dictionary definition of anachronistic. n. 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. One that is out of...