Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Arranged in order of time of occurrence.
- adj. Relating to or in accordance with chronology.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time: as, a chronological table or narrative; a chronological arrangement of works of art.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or arranged according to temporal order
Etymologies
- chronology + -ical (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Bringing you here created considerable temporal strain -- what we call chronological warping -- and while you were asleep, I dispatched a field team to try to figure out what's involved.”
“This deal where they recently put the books in "chronological" order just didn't suit me.”
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“The summer school lasted for a week, and this gave the foreign visitors a rare opportunity to see the whole of the Escorial systematically and in chronological order, which is not a feat that can be accomplished even in a single day.”
“Did you write it in chronological order, or did you keep shifting back and forth between the Korean War period in the early 1950s, New York in the 1980s, and China in the 1930s, as you do in the book?”
“These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.”
“Behold these tweets, which are pasted here in chronological order:”
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“Here's the list I've come up with (in chronological order):”
“Finally, I needed to have all the earthquakes in chronological order, which was the reverse of the order given on the web page:”
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“About this editionThroughout the edition, letters are presented in chronological order, each letter being assigned its own number.”
“It's also the twenty-seventh Valdemar book, going by publication order, and is currently the seventh book in chronological order.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chronological’.
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
enclose, resource, meaningful, margin, embedded, publisher, mentor, clip, spelling, appendix, gloss, refer and 188 more...
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chrono-, chron-
of or relating to time
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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GRE
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, abrasive, abridge, abstain, acme, activism, adhere, admonish and 195 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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Favorites
machiavellian, mercurial, deus ex machina, synecdoche, litotes, phallic, freudian, metonymy, chrestomathy, falsifiable, gestalt, truthiness and 211 more...
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My Words
Words that I use regularly and consider mine.
zen, poser, savvy, angst, flustered, bitter, whatsoever, farfetched, indeed, scenario, inevitable, salvage and 134 more...
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strieale's Words
scientism, chronological, christophobia, subsurface, high culture, jeffersonian demo..., jacksonian democracy, incommensurable, rebuttal, discerning, disparate, anodyne and 156 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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MY WORDS
egoist, entomologists, egotist, altruist, introvert, extrovert, ambivert, misanthrope, misogynist, misogamist, ascetic, Altruism and 193 more...
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cinders & smoke
lovely words
ruelle, demiurge, auric, entangle, nebulous, ameliorate, confluence, solicitude, elegiac, colloquium, verspertine, sibylline and 7 more...
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portablec's Words
jawbreaker, narnad, pax, chaw, vealpie, saltherring, decisive, rummaged, raggedy, trifle, scribblement, numskull and 50 more...
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SAT Vocabulary
243 SAT Vocabulary words, courtesy of Excel Test Prep, Inc.
adorn, aeon, affectation, aloof, amalgam, ambivalent, anguish, antecedent, apathy, aplomb, appall, apropos and 64 more...
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