anachronistic
9
9.6
- adjective
- /ˌænəˈkrɒnɪstɪk/
:
anacrónico
- The use of typewriters in an office full of computers seemed anachronistic.
- seems anachronistic
- become anachronistic
- anachronistic term
You are anachronistic, leftover, way out of place.
- You are anachronistic, leftover, way out of place.
- What an ancient, anachronistic, stupid way of evaluating a woman's worth.
- And it's good to keep in mind that our notion of the Bible, you know, as a book is incredibly anachronistic.
- Now it's a little bit anachronistic because Aristotle is working in the time after the fall of the Greek cities states.
- Rachel had been modeled on the Celtic type of build, anachronistic and attractive.
- Like, how did you get so perfectly not anachronistic to that.
- And I pointed out that seemed very anachronistic to me, Deborah in colonial times.
- to use an anachronistic phrase, date. Date nights. Well, everyone hates that idea. It's like they say, well, you know,
Examples
-
Except for the anachronistic cars, she could have been in some time warp.
Fiction book (1990) -
Meanwhile, the public interest, the national interest, has become almost anachronistic in the day-to-day political process.
Academic text (1991) -
-Where did that anachronistic van come from?
-
Can we please lose the anachronistic bag?
-
For example, how anachronistic are Muslim attitudes to the role of women in society?
Academic text (1999) -
Such views are often held without challenge, but nonetheless paint an entirely anachronistic picture of American military and political institutions.
Academic text (2000) -
The Indonesian leadership does not desire its country to be viewed as having an anachronistic political system.
Academic text (1991) -
At first, this impressive sculpture seems strangely anachronistic in a post-apartheid state.
Academic text (1995) -
But surely the anthropologist is also imposing a point of view that is both anachronistic and misleading.
Academic text (1995) -
The children, as promised, are deeply engrossed in their game, frowning over plastic icons and anachronistic paper currency.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
34
9.9
Very old and not used in everyday life
32
8.2
Very old and not useful or suitable now
8
5.8
Very old-fashioned and not modern
3
6.2
Not modern and looking old-fashioned
2
9.9
Very old-fashioned and out of date
Belonging to a different time and not fitting the present
A person or thing that belongs to a different time and feels out of place now
Out of date and not keeping up with current ideas
Antonyms
How Outdated
Surface Forms
Morphology
anachronistic = anachronism (semi-transparent) = ana + chron + istic
Formed from the noun 'anachronism' with the adjective-forming suffix '-istic'; knowing the noun makes the adjective clear, but the Greek-derived parts are not fully familiar to average learners.
Etymology
Anachronistic comes from Greek parts ana- meaning 'back' and chronos meaning 'time'. You can see the same chron in chronicle, which means 'a record of time'. So, something anachronistic feels 'out of its time' or like it belongs to the past.