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Meanings of anachronistic in English

Chronologically misplaced.

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Usage of anachronistic in English
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However, the team's mentality has always been interesting and at times anachronistic.
The Irish Times
2
Gillard justified her position with a critique: marriage is an anachronistic institution.
The Guardian
3
It is anachronistic that we start every day here with a prayer.
The Irish Times
4
Winslet manages emotional honesty within anachronistic confines, and Schoenaerts escapes with dignity.
The Guardian
5
For all that, the deliberately anachronistic style makes it go down easily.
The Irish Times
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I hate to be anachronistic, but I don't like this new system.
Wired
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Seldom, for example, can one movie have featured so many distractingly anachronistic hairstyles.
Reuters
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The links to the United States, while increasingly anachronistic, are strong.
Reuters
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But that doesn't mean nightclubs are quite as anachronistic as CD-Roms.
The Guardian
10
Our libel laws are anachronistic, hinder journalism and favour wealthy people.
The Irish Times
11
Dresden would have known how to respond to that kind of anachronistic gibberish.
Side Jobs
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But I don't see that as being anachronistic to the period.
The Guardian
13
More and more, the IMF looks anachronistic and its goals untenable.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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This arrangement had seemed anachronistic and there had been talk of ending it.
Reuters
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His world of truck-stops and highway romance seem weirdly anachronistic in the noughties.
The Irish Times
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The BankAmericard and Master Charge decals on it seemed jarringly anachronistic.
The Shining
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