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Anachronistic Moderate

Anachronistic has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

chronologically misplaced

"English public schools are anachronistic"

2

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

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Origin

The word comes from combining "anachronism" with the suffix "-ic." It originally meant something that is out of its proper time or era.

Rhyming Words
tic otic etic ictic mutic lotic attic ontic istic vatic octic latic metic artic ustic matic votic retic optic nitic
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