anachronistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌnæk.ɹəˈnɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more anachronistic
form: most anachronistic
Etymology: From anachronism + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
text: The impiety of the Ciceronian attitude was probably his major objection to the sect, yet the dialogue is mainly concerned with the more anachronistic and illogical aspects of attempting to write only as Cicero did.
ref: 1975, David O. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanism in the Reign of Francis I, page 71:
text: What could be more anachronistic than imposing contemporary concern over fragmentation, i.e. diversity, of the present on the past so that no sources of patriarchal power or hierarchy can be held responsible for collective oppression in any time period?
ref: 1996, Joan Hoff, “The Pernicious Effects of Poststructuralism on Women's History”, in Diane Bell, Renate Klein, editors, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, page 404:
text: Among them, even the most lucid of 'one-nation' Tories had severe difficulties in seeing the anti-growth nature of some of the most anachronistic of traditional British institutions.
ref: 2001, David E. Hojman, “Economic Growth and Civil Society under Pinochet and Thatcher: A Political Economy Analysis of Free-Market Models in Chile and the United Kingdom”, in Frank H. Columbus, editor, Politics and Economics of Latin America, Volume 1, footnote, page 94:
text: The 'liberalism' issue that perplexed Catholics in the 1880s was by 1914 increasingly anachronistic, as political liberalism won resoundingly (in France), or lost resoundingly (in Austria), or became fragmented and divided (in Germany).
ref: 2004, John W. Boyer, “1: Catholics, Christians and the Challenges of Democracy: The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century”, in Wolfram Kaiser, Helmut Wohnout, editors, Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945, volume 1, page 22:
text: In their daily practices, journalists often perpetuated ageing and increasingly anachronistic ideologies, but they were rarely, in fact, dominated by them.
ref: 2013, Brian Moeran, Asian Media Productions, page 104:
text: The coronation of a British ruler is, of course, a political ritual and a religious ceremony. But it is also, as the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 established, a TV show. It’s an anachronistic assertion of divine right retooled to recognize that, in the electronic era, even hereditary rulers have to argue their relevance.
ref: 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
glosses: Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: erroneous in date
word: anachronous
word: anachronistical
sense: not or no longer applicable or appropriate for the time
word: outdated
word: antiquated
word: obsolete
sense: having opinions from the past
word: behind the times
sense: having opinions from the past
word: old-fashioned
sense: having opinions from the past
word: traditional
word: anachronistic
word: antichronical
word: dated
Hypernyms: word: ahistorical
word: incongruent
Hyponyms: word: prochronistic
word: parachronistic
Derived terms: unanachronistic
Related terms: word: anachronism
word: anachronist
word: anachronistically
word: archaic
word: conservative
word: incongruent
word: outdated
word: parachronistic
word: prochronistic
word: chronistic
word: misdate