anachronistic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- anachronistically adverb
- nonanachronistic adjective
- nonanachronistically adverb
- pseudoanachronistic adjective
- pseudoanachronistical adjective
- unanachronistic adjective
- unanachronistical adjective
- unanachronistically adverb
Etymology
Origin of anachronistic
First recorded in 1765–75; anachron(ism) + -istic
Example Sentences
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“One wrong face, one wrong soul, one anachronistic person, and you’re done.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
One of the most important ways to do that is to loosen the anachronistic barriers that unduly inhibit bank innovation, especially when it comes to technological transformations like stablecoins.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
Despite his Gen Z status, he notably lacks the “smartphone face” that’s rampant among pop artists and celebrities — and is partial to dressing in an anachronistic way, which he pulls off with gusto.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
Today, these spaces can feel strangely anachronistic - relics of a bygone era in a country eager to shed its colonial past.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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