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Anachronistic   /ənˌækrənˈɪstɪk/   Listen
Anachronistic

adjective
1.
Chronologically misplaced.  Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous.





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"Anachronistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... already all made up. This time she'd been going extra heavy on the burrowing-into-character bit, I could tell right away, even if it was only for a hacked-out anachronistic prologue. She signed to me to help her dress without even looking at me, but as I got busy I looked at her eyes. They were so cold and sad and lonely (maybe because they were so far away from her eyebrows and ...
— No Great Magic • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... visited various lesser chiefs among the Tevas, and these to have excused themselves solely on the danger of the enterprise. The broad distinction here drawn between Nateva and Namunu-ura is therefore not impossibly anachronistic. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "Anachronistic" :   anachronous, anachronic, asynchronous, anachronism


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