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What is the adjective for anachronistic?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb anachronize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

anachronistic
  1. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time; not applicable to or not appropriate for the time.
  2. (of a person) Having opinions from the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; overly conservative.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Even the engagement was an act of fierce rebellion and shunning of anachronistic traditions.”
      “But it also avoids the half remembered, anachronistic memory of the juror in the jury room.”
      “Any justification very likely can appear or be made to appear judgmental, discriminatory, unfairly harsh, insubstantial or even anachronistic.”
anachronous
  1. anachronistic
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They are likely to make significant gains, not because of their anachronous tenets, but because of historical patterns and an electorate exasperated with seeming Democratic ineptitude.”
      “When all is said and done, in fixing our focus on Brazil in the beginning, in a way we were guilty of perceiving the world in the anachronous manner of privileging a state or a nation rather than a society or a territory.”
      “While the distinction between orchestral and chamber music is anachronous and arbitrary it is logical to the modern reader.”
anachronistical
anachronized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of anachronize
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anachronizing
  1. present participle of anachronize
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