anachronistic

Also a·nach·ro·nis·ti·cal

[uh-nak-ruh-nis-tik]

adjective

1. pertaining to or containing an anachronism.

Other Word Forms

• anachronistically adverb
• nonanachronistic adjective
• nonanachronistically adverb
• pseudoanachronistic adjective
• pseudoanachronistical adjective
• unanachronistic adjective
• unanachronistical adjective
• unanachronistically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of anachronistic¹

First recorded in 1765–75; anachron(ism) + -istic

Example Sentences

But it also lends the movie an anachronistic feel.

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There is, though, an anachronistic unreality to all of this.

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Certainly, it exposes his authoritarian bent, but it also reveals his anachronistic view of the world.

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But by the 1970s, as the canine rabies vaccine became widely available and increasingly mandatory, that scene and all its implications slipped toward the anachronistic.

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Today, these spaces can feel strangely anachronistic - relics of a bygone era in a country eager to shed its colonial past.

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Related Words

• ill-timed 
• improper 
• premature 
• undue 
• unfortunate