Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. In an anachronistic manner; in the manner of an anachronism.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an anachronistic manner
Examples
“Ai Ling is a wonderful character - not anachronistically wonder-gal, but brave and determined, and her particular spiritual powers are a delight.”
“Anderson Cooper is bland and anachronistically contemporary-sounding as the Voice of the Narrator.”
The Wall Street Journal: Lovable, Huggable, And Unscrupulous Too
“Ironically, Booton resolves his confusion, anachronistically nevertheless, in a prior post.”
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Here are some rapid fire observations from this portion: Pichon-Lalande has a higher proportion of merlot in the final blend; coincidentally, it slightly rounder than its cabernet dominant neighbor, which may be why some who use anachronistically ascribe gender to wine attributes consider it the more “feminine” of the duo.”
A tale of two Pichons - peace in Pauillac | Dr Vino's wine blog
“From the 1980s onwards, women get to do everything, and all those historical novels are determined to have their female heroines saving the world, it seems, however anachronistically, in order to redress the balance!”
Neglected Classics and Unbound Women « Tales from the Reading Room
“The screenwriters, Michele and Kieran Mulroney, have drawn on Conan Doyle's novel The Valley of Fear for Moriarty's character and background, and on the story "The Final Problem" for the film's climactic encounter between Moriarty and Holmes at an anachronistically named "summit conference" beside the Reichenbach Falls.”
“Unestablished intellectual ventures caught Mr. Dutton's eye because his criteria were almost anachronistically elemental: An article or review must be lucid, opinionated and conspicuous for the quality of its argument, the felicity of its prose and the individuality of its thought.”
“Mr. Cartwright takes a few satirical jabs at the more anachronistically baronial elements of the old bank, and Sir Harry's "Citizen Kane"-like infatuation with a young actress comes in for some ribbing.”
“The national media, which anachronistically still means East Coast-based, at least to the East Coast-based version of it -- and which fails to grasp that the Internet has created a post-geographic world even as the old national media retreats from international coverage and analysis -- had seemed to be holding on to higher volume and quality.”
The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Harsh Realm: The Post-Press Era and Meg Whitman
“Eakins himself propels a scull at midstream, while three figures dressed, anachronistically, as Quakers row a distant red boat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anachronistically’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, counterrevolution..., counterrevolutionary, electroencephalogram, electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., institutionalisation, institutionalization and 634 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
granoblastically, cicerone, aerocable, anachronistically, parvis, athwart, mnemonic, squitteroo, nusshaus, edelweiss, intermezzo, cabriole and 183 more...
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