anachronistic.

1. Belonging to a different time from the period in which it appears.

2. No longer suited to current conditions because it belongs to an earlier way of life.

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Words that belong together

• anachronistic detail
• anachronistic costume

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An anachronistic clasp betrayed the portrait's later origin.

The film's anachronistic costume broke her belief in the scene.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more anachronistic; superlative most anachronistic where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.