anachronistic

[ UK /ˌænɐkɹənˈɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /əˌnækɹəˈnɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. chronologically misplaced
    English public schools are anachronistic
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How To Use anachronistic In A Sentence

  • But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law.
  • The orchestra itself (ten violins, three violas, etc.) is of a healthy (but not anachronistic) size - another plus to this recording.
  • Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma.
  • What is more, the Internet, as a form of a material culture, has worked to render other dualisms, especially that of production and consumption, ‘anachronistic’.
  • To be sure what we are anachronistically discerning as a scene of psychoanalysis is part of the process by which Being 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
  • A while ago I learned to engrave copper, and I enjoyed doing it so much I was also pleased with myself for having acquired an anachronistic and highly specialized skill that I engraved every hard surface I could find. Brian D. Cohen: Things
  • When these conflicts reach a crisis point, existing dominant groups always fight to maintain the anachronistic form of social organization.
  • At the same time, he vowed that his government would continue to push for the lifting of what he called the "anachronistic" and "discriminatory" arms embargo against China. Daimnation!: The most amoral democracy on earth
  • Peter Fitzpatrick's concept, physicalising the anachronistic contrast in each character's ‘journey’ in a curve around the room, kept the audience engaged and involved in the complexities of the text.
  • Boyishly reared by an emancipated mother and a suicidal father, she is the victim of heredity, environment and her own anachronistic position as an outsider in the new socialist England.
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