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How to use anachronistic in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Anachronistic means erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time. Example: “If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.”

Examples of anachronistic by meaning

adjectiveErroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.

  • If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.
  • The impiety of the Ciceronian attitude was probably his major objection to the sect, yet the dialogue is mainly concerned with the more anachronistic and illogical aspects of attempting to write only as Cicero did.1975, David O. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanism in the Reign of Francis I, page 71
  • What could be more anachronistic than imposing contemporary concern over fragmentation, i.e. diversity, of the present on the past so that no sources of patriarchal power or hierarchy can be held responsible for collective oppression in any time period?1996, Joan Hoff, “The Pernicious Effects of Poststructuralism on Women's History”, in Diane Bell, Renate Klein, editors, Radically...

More sentences with anachronistic

  • But the definition is anachronistic and misglosses the citation it was presumably devised to explain.1981, Catherine Slater, Defeatists and Their Enemies, page 139. From the entry misgloss
  • Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture. From the entry cyber
  • This character has his own way of viewing all that is wrong, challenging nostalgic rhetoric and the most anachronistic Kiplingism.2007, Laura E. Ruberto, Kristi M. Wilson, Italian neorealism and global cinema. From the entry Kiplingism
  • Getting action can make use of prolepsis; that is, getting action may proceed by inveigling others to take an anachronistic view of the future.2012, Harrison C. White, Identity and Control, page 282. From the entry proleptics
  • Their feeling, anachronistic as the servants’ call button in their dining room, is that if you don’t have the money for something, you don’t buy it.2008 April 17, Joyce Wadler, “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Solvent”, in The New York Times. From the entry call button
  • This familiar but strange, strangely familiar, anachronistic foreign language at the heart of Julius Caesar is the only Latin in all of Shakespeare's so-called Roman plays.[2006, Maria Wyke, Julius Caesar in Western Culture, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry et tu, Brute
  • As for sideburns, the attraction was lost on me even in the 50s, but big, anachronistic muttonchops on hippy boys were the cream in my coffee in the 60s.1992 July 4, Frank R.A.J. Maloney, “90210”, in soc.motss (Usenet). From the entry cream in one's coffee
  • I would advise anyone who does not share its politics — surely the great majority of gay men and lesbians — to shun NOLAG for the anachronistic zombie it is.1982 February 13, Wayne Dynes, “Unnatural”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 4. From the entry for

Meaning of anachronistic

  1. adjective Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.

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Questions about anachronistic in a sentence

How do you use anachronistic in a sentence?
Anachronistic is used as an adjective. For example: “If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers.”
What is a short sentence with anachronistic?
“But the definition is anachronistic and misglosses the citation it was presumably devised to explain.”
What does anachronistic mean?
Anachronistic means erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.

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