Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
anachronous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not in the correct
date order.Chronologically incorrect.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective chronologically misplaced
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Examples
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All your comments on non-WASPS are so anachronic is not even funny.
Think Progress » Bush on Immigration: Wherever The Political Winds Blow 2005
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All your comments on non-WASPS are so anachronic is not even funny.
Think Progress » Bush on Immigration: Wherever The Political Winds Blow 2005
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I guess this maybe the first time in modern history a country is fighting all alone for it's democracy, surrounded by a group of marxist proto-dictators while the once Leader of The Free World stands aside the most primitive and anachronic ideologists.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The dressing of the black people is not only anachronic but also anastupid and no its not a word.
“AFRICANS” AS PROPS FOR WHITE FEMININITY » Sociological Images 2008
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Chavez is the white hope of the failed castrism anachronic and near death who feels that its continuation is impossible in the Island and that it is only possible through the Venezuelan president and the MVR, its extravagant, radical and heterogeneous political movement.
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Chavez is the white hope of the failed castrism anachronic and near death who feels that its continuation is impossible in the Island and that it is only possible through the Venezuelan president and the MVR, its extravagant, radical and heterogeneous political movement.
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He said that, nevertheless, Washington ` ` runs the risk of isolating itself in its struggle to maintain a position that is increasingly incomprehensible and anachronic. ''
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Indian, and white -- from the yoke of the anachronic apartheid regime.
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Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anachronic
JM is all sevens and sixes about anachronic use-by-dates from days gone by.
August 13, 2010