Vocabulary Entry

anachronistic

|adjective

adjective

Belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned.

Example Sentences

"The anachronistic costume made it clear that the film was not set in the present."

"His use of an anachronistic phrase during the modern seminar raised some eyebrows."

"The painting featured an anachronistic image of a car that didn’t exist in the depicted era."