Definitions For Anachronism

noun

  • An artifact that belongs to another time
  • A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
  • Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
  • Something (such as a word, an object, or an event) that is mistakenly placed in a time where it does not belong in a story, movie, etc.
  • A person or a thing that seems to belong to the past and not to fit in the present

Is Anachronisms a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
19
Words with Friends
22

The word Anachronism is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Anachronism in a Sentence

  • The novel is full of anachronisms.
  • He's an old-fashioned politician who is seen by many of his colleagues as an anachronism.

Synonyms for Anachronism

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