: 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
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