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Anachronistic
see synonyms of anachronisticAdjective
1. anachronic, anachronistic, anachronous
chronologically misplaced
Example Sentences:'English public schools are anachronistic'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Anachronistic
see synonyms of anachronisticn.
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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