anachronistic

adjective

anach·​ro·​nis·​tic ə-¦na-krə-¦ni-stik 

variants or less commonly anachronistical

ə-¦na-krə-¦ni-sti-kəl

: characterized by or involving anachronism : chronologically out of place

Ships are tied up with what the rest of the world would call ropes. They look anachronistic—like rope you would see in a seaport museum, but larger.

—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 1990

Bernstein's notion of jazz, rooted in the thirties, was already anachronistic in 1944, and became more so later on.

—David Schiff, The Atlantic, June 1993

anachronistically

ə-¦na-krə-¦ni-sti-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

Word History

Etymology

anachronism + -istic, -istical

First Known Use

1775, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for anachronistic

• animalistic
• antagonistic
• antiphlogistic
• behavioristic
• cannibalistic
• capitalistic
• characteristic
• collectivistic
• deterministic
• ethnolinguistic
• expressionistic
• idealistic