Anachronism meaning

Noun: anachronism

Pronunciation: (una-kru,ni-zum)

Anachronism meaning:

1. Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred.
2. An artifact that belongs to another time.
3. A person who seems to be displaced in time, who belongs to another age.

Synonyms: misdating , mistiming

Quotations: Ambrose Bierce – A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival, an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

Nigel Turner – Open skies will come, just as the Berlin Wall finally came down. It’s an anachronism to have these restrictions between two free-trading states.

Roger Diwan – OPEC is an anachronism today. This is not a market where suppliers have to manage any spare capacity. They cannot manage the short-term risk, which is going to be on the upside. What we’re seeing here is a demand shock, but everybody is looking to OPEC as if it were a supply shock.

Ambrose Bierce – A small square of silk or linen used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare’s introducing it into the play of “Othello” is an anachronism.

Sample sentences:

1. He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be sounder than that of innocence.
2. Cuba is an anachronism and history will catch up with them.
3. These facts are an embarrassment for those who see supernatural beliefs as a cultural anachronism, soon to be eroded by scientific discoveries and the spread of cosmopolitan values.
4. It definitely was an anachronism. It’s amazing it survived this long.
5. It is very much an anachronism.
6. I wouldn’t mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
7. Lucas had a great summer of training. John is an anachronism. He is the reason why I come to work.
8. There is no logic in having a cash market regulator and a futures market regulator. That really is an anachronism.