anachronistic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- Proto-Hellenic *aná Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-) Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō) Ancient Greek χρονῐ́ζω (khronĭ́zō) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐ́ζομαι (ănăkhronĭ́zomai) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμός (ănăkhronĭsmós)der. New Latin anachronismusder. English anachronism Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English anachronistic From anachronism + -ic.
Meanings
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Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
The coronation of a British ruler is, of course, a political ritual and a religious ceremony. But it is also, as the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 established, a TV show. It’s an anachronistic assertion of divine right retooled to recognize that, in the electronic era, even hereditary rulers have to argue their relevance.
2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times:The 'liberalism' issue that perplexed Catholics in the 1880s was by 1914 increasingly anachronistic, as political liberalism won resoundingly (in France), or lost resoundingly (in Austria), or became fragmented and divided (in Germany).
2004, John W. Boyer, “1: Catholics, Christians and the Challenges of Democracy: The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century”, in Wolfram Kaiser, Helmut Wohnout, editors, Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945, volume 1, page 22:If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
In their daily practices, journalists often perpetuated ageing and increasingly anachronistic ideologies, but they were rarely, in fact, dominated by them.
2013, Brian Moeran, Asian Media Productions, page 104:What could be more anachronistic than imposing contemporary concern over fragmentation, i.e. diversity, of the present on the past so that no sources of patriarchal power or hierarchy can be held responsible for collective oppression in any time period?
1996, Joan Hoff, “The Pernicious Effects of Poststructuralism on Women's History”, in Diane Bell, Renate Klein, editors, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, page 404:Among them, even the most lucid of 'one-nation' Tories had severe difficulties in seeing the anti-growth nature of some of the most anachronistic of traditional British institutions.
2001, David E. Hojman, “Economic Growth and Civil Society under Pinochet and Thatcher: A Political Economy Analysis of Free-Market Models in Chile and the United Kingdom”, in Frank H. Columbus, editor, Politics and Economics of Latin America, Volume 1, footnote, page 94:The impiety of the Ciceronian attitude was probably his major objection to the sect, yet the dialogue is mainly concerned with the more anachronistic and illogical aspects of attempting to write only as Cicero did.
1975, David O. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanism in the Reign of Francis I, page 71:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more anachronistic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most anachronistic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
historical · historically accurate · period appropriate
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
parachronistic · prochronistic
Relateds
misdate · anachronist · chronistic · archaic · incongruent · prochronistic · anachronism · parachronistic · conservative · outdated · anachronistically
Synonyms
anachronistic · anachronous (erroneous in date) · dated · anachronistical · antiquated · antichronical · obsolete · outdated (not or no longer applicable or appropriate for the time)
Translations (48)
ru анахрони́ческий (erroneous in date) · de zeitwidrig (erroneous in date) · cmn 不合時宜 /不合时宜 (erroneous in date) · gl anacrónico (preferring past things and values) · gl anacrónico (erroneous in date) · hu anakronisztikus (erroneous in date) · ko 시대 착오 (erroneous in date) · de überkommen (preferring past things and values) · it anacronistico (erroneous in date) · pt anacrónico (preferring past things and values) · pt anacrônico (erroneous in date) · de anachronistisch (preferring past things and values) · de altmodisch (preferring past things and values) · hy ժամանակավրեպ (erroneous in date) · ca anacrònic (erroneous in date) · lb anachronistesch (erroneous in date) · la anachronicus (erroneous in date) · de fehldatiert (erroneous in date) · pt anacrônico (preferring past things and values) · fi epäajanmukainen (erroneous in date) · tl laos na (erroneous in date) · he אֲנַכְרוֹנִיסְטִי (erroneous in date) · cmn 不合時代 /不合时代 (erroneous in date) · pl anachroniczny (preferring past things and values) · de unzeitgemäß (preferring past things and values) · el αναχρονιστικός (erroneous in date) · pl anachroniczny (erroneous in date) · de veraltet (preferring past things and values) · fi anakronistinen (erroneous in date) · de obsolet (preferring past things and values) · de traditionalistisch (preferring past things and values) · gv mee-emshiragh (erroneous in date) · es anacrónico (preferring past things and values) · be анахранічны (erroneous in date) · ja 時代錯誤の (erroneous in date) · nl anachronistisch (erroneous in date) · pt anacrónico (erroneous in date) · ga mí-aimseartha (erroneous in date) · de anachronistisch (erroneous in date) · fr anachronique (erroneous in date) · ro anacronic (erroneous in date) · eo anakronisma (erroneous in date) · es anacrónico (erroneous in date) · hy անախրոնիկ (erroneous in date) · fi aikaan sopimaton (erroneous in date) · de antiquiert (preferring past things and values) · ru анахрони́чный (erroneous in date) · la anachronisticus (erroneous in date)