Anachronistic

a·nach·ro·nism  (-nkr-nzm)

n.

1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.

2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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[French anachronisme, from New Latin anachronismus, from Late Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizesthai, to be an anachronism : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek khronizein, to take time (from khronos, time).]

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a·nachro·nistic, a·nachro·nous (-ns) adj.

a·nachro·nisti·cal·ly, a·nachro·nous·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

anachronistic - chronologically misplaced; "English public schools are anachronistic" anachronic, anachronous asynchronous - not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase