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单词 anachronistic
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Definition of anachronistic in English:

anachronistic

adjectiveənakrəˈnɪstɪkəˌnækrəˈnɪstɪk
  • 1Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.

    'Titus' benefits from the effective use of anachronistic elements like cars and loudspeakers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A futuristic laser gun could have been used as an appropriate prop, so why would this anachronistic weapon have been used instead?
    • Perhaps this contributes to the movie's failure—thanks to inauthentic, anachronistic dialogue—to convey 1973 as a living, breathing era.
    • Slow scene changes, line fluffs, and anachronistic props appear occasionally.
    • We will have to ignore the anachronistic contemporary references.
    • Hopefully, the new version will be rousing and won't feature too much anachronistic material (such as a kick-ass Guinevere).
    • This needed to be done without infusing the story with anachronistic music and hip lingo.
    • Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma.
    • This movie brings a cheerfully anachronistic spin to the centuries-old traditions of knights engaging in combat for glory, honor, and a lady or two.
    • This use of the anachronistic was further employed in his bold adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
    • Blatantly anachronistic dialogue, lines like "You should get out more," serve to cheapen the film.
    1. 1.1 Belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned.
      she is rebelling against the anachronistic morality of her parents
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Smith is not the first to remark on the sometimes inconsistent and anachronistic nature of legal discourse and practice.
      • Although this all sounds quite anachronistic, are changes in technology breathing new life into these types of disputes?
      • He apparently is smart enough to know an anachronistic and politically inaccurate comparison when he sees one.
      • Suddenly the anachronistic concept of the suit (jacket, trousers, vest, tie) is showing signs of change.
      • Technology killed copyright, and copyright is anachronistic in networked culture.
      • It has since changed its name but, clinging to the same anachronistic anthropology, it now promotes itself as a movement "for tribal peoples."
      • After the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, it seemed anachronistic for colleges to treat their students as wards.
      • The sixth edition was admittedly sometimes quaint or anachronistic.
      • He claimed that I must be the last person in the legal academy who clings to this anachronistic view.
      • Organized labor is widely disparaged as a weak and anachronistic force in American life.

Derivatives

  • anachronistically

  • adverbənakrəˈnɪstɪk(ə)liəˌnakrəˈnistik
    • Some of these objects clash anachronistically with the picture's subject matter.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The latter appears, anachronistically, in the guise of two rich young bachelors who have just inherited the estate next door.
      • They're not anachronistically trying to make the perfect old-fashioned pop song.
      • He excoriates those who have insisted somewhat anachronistically that Calvin was not a systematic theologian.
      • Perhaps anachronistically, he argues that naval power remains pivotal, even in the 21st century.
 
 

Definition of anachronistic in US English:

anachronistic

adjectiveəˌnækrəˈnɪstɪkəˌnakrəˈnistik
  • 1Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.

    'Titus' benefits from the effective use of anachronistic elements like cars and loudspeakers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Slow scene changes, line fluffs, and anachronistic props appear occasionally.
    • This movie brings a cheerfully anachronistic spin to the centuries-old traditions of knights engaging in combat for glory, honor, and a lady or two.
    • A futuristic laser gun could have been used as an appropriate prop, so why would this anachronistic weapon have been used instead?
    • This needed to be done without infusing the story with anachronistic music and hip lingo.
    • This use of the anachronistic was further employed in his bold adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
    • Blatantly anachronistic dialogue, lines like "You should get out more," serve to cheapen the film.
    • Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma.
    • Perhaps this contributes to the movie's failure—thanks to inauthentic, anachronistic dialogue—to convey 1973 as a living, breathing era.
    • Hopefully, the new version will be rousing and won't feature too much anachronistic material (such as a kick-ass Guinevere).
    • We will have to ignore the anachronistic contemporary references.
    1. 1.1 Belonging or appropriate to an earlier period, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned.
      she is rebelling against the anachronistic morality of her parents
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Technology killed copyright, and copyright is anachronistic in networked culture.
      • After the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, it seemed anachronistic for colleges to treat their students as wards.
      • Organized labor is widely disparaged as a weak and anachronistic force in American life.
      • It has since changed its name but, clinging to the same anachronistic anthropology, it now promotes itself as a movement "for tribal peoples."
      • He claimed that I must be the last person in the legal academy who clings to this anachronistic view.
      • Although this all sounds quite anachronistic, are changes in technology breathing new life into these types of disputes?
      • Suddenly the anachronistic concept of the suit (jacket, trousers, vest, tie) is showing signs of change.
      • The sixth edition was admittedly sometimes quaint or anachronistic.
      • He apparently is smart enough to know an anachronistic and politically inaccurate comparison when he sees one.
      • Smith is not the first to remark on the sometimes inconsistent and anachronistic nature of legal discourse and practice.
 
 
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