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anachronous

[ uh-nak-ruh-nuhs ]

adjective

  1. misplaced in time; anachronistic.


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Other Word Forms

  • ·Բ۴·Դdzܲ· adverb
  • ԴDza·Բ۴·Դdzܲ adjective
  • non·Բ۴·Դdzܲ· adverb
  • ܲa·Բ۴·Դdzܲ adjective
  • un·Բ۴·Դdzܲ· adverb
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Word 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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