anachronic

/ ˌænəˈkrɒnɪk /

adjective

1. out of chronological order or out of date

Other Word Forms

• anachronically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of anachronic¹

C19: see _anachronism

Example Sentences

It’s easy to identify gaps in a supposedly “universal” collection, and very easy to post anachronic judgments of what your predecessors ignored.

From New York Times

There is surely nothing more incongruous or anachronic in the soliloquy of Tristram after his separation from Iseult than in the lecture of Theseus after the obsequies of Arcite.

From Project Gutenberg

Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre.

From Project Gutenberg