Definitions for anachronistic
anachro·nis·tic

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1. anachronic, anachronous, anachronisticadjective

   chronologically misplaced

   "English public schools are anachronistic"

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1. anachronisticadjective

   Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time.

   If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.

2. anachronisticadjective

   having an opinion of the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; over-conservative.

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1. anachronistic

   An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods. The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a plant or animal, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period that is placed outside its proper temporal domain. (An example of that would be films including non-avian dinosaurs and prehistoric human beings living side by side, when they were, in reality, millions of years apart.) An anachronism may be either intentional or unintentional. Intentional anachronisms may be introduced into a literary or artistic work to help a contemporary audience engage more readily with a historical period. Anachronism can also be used intentionally for purposes of rhetoric, propaganda, comedy, or shock. Unintentional anachronisms may occur when a writer, artist, or performer is unaware of differences in technology, terminology and language, customs and attitudes, or even fashions between different historical periods and eras.

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1. anachronistic

   Anachronistic refers to something that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially anything that belongs to an earlier time. It could be an object, a person, an event, a phrase, a practice, or anything else that's set or seems to be set in a time where it doesn't belong or seems out of date in the current context.

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1. Anachronisticadjective

   erroneous in date; containing an anachronism

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How to pronounce anachronistic?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of anachronistic in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of anachronistic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of anachronistic in a Sentence

1. Oren Segal:

   Even within the white supremacist movement, they’re seen as anachronistic, they’re often a small group of people ... and they tend to fade away due to their inability to organize.

2. Erich Fromm:

   If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

3. Hun Sen:

   The CPP has become more and more anachronistic.

4. Charles Krauthammer:

   [His promise is] irrelevant, it's anachronistic, it's obsolete.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=anachronistic
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Anachronistic
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anachronistic
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anachronistic
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=anachronistic