anachronous

[uh-nak-ruh-nuhs]

adjective

1. misplaced in time; anachronistic.

Other Word Forms

• anachronously adverb
• nonanachronous adjective
• nonanachronously adverb
• unanachronous adjective
• unanachronously adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of anachronous¹

First recorded in 1850–55; anachron(ism) + -ous

Example Sentences

I like them to stalk, like the ghosts that they are—our modern passioning seems a bit anachronous in them.

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The bill was, however, returned “Ignoramus,” and the use of the name was probably anachronous.

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This superstition of witchcraft has here been strong in all eras, but it is at last becoming extinct; cretinism, as anachronous and as horrible,—a fact, not a superstition,—remains unaccounted for and unlessened.

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The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never.

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Related Words

• antiquated 
• archaic 
• obsolete 
• old 
• out-of-date 
• outmoded