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anachronous
[uh-nak-ruh-nuhs]
adjective
misplaced in time; anachronistic.
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- anachronously adverb
- nonanachronous adjective
- nonanachronously adverb
- unanachronous adjective
- unanachronously adverb
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of anachronous1
First recorded in 1850–55; anachron(ism) + -ous
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Example Sentences
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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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- antiquatedÌý
- archaicÌý
- obsoleteÌý
- oldÌý
- out-of-dateÌý
- outmodedÌý
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