The phrase "anachronistic term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a word or phrase that is out of its proper time period or context, often implying that it is outdated or inappropriate in a modern setting.
Example: "Referring to smartphones as 'mobile phones' is an anachronistic term in today's digital age."
Alternatives: "outdated term" or "obsolete expression".
He misleadingly calls the framers "Bible believing," an anachronistic term implying a literal faith in unerring Scripture that the 18th-century mind did not contemplate.
However, the ABI has reassured policy-holders that this "rather anachronistic" term is widely misunderstood, and that they will be covered by their policies.
Worse, the book can only enhance the tendency of journalists to use the (long anachronistic) term "the Kremlin" to describe every type of higher power in the country.
So for the next count, in 2020, the Census Bureau is considering collapsing the two ethnicity and race questions into a single "race or origin" inquiry (it may also drop the anachronistic term "Negro").
For several years I was plagued by a convenience store clerk who insisted on calling me "Boss," even after I told him that I found this anachronistic term, along with "Stretch," "Ace," "Slick," "Pops," "Dude," "Bro"' and "Big Fella," offensive.
Just inside the entrance is a massive sculpture of Ingersoll's head, rescued from destruction in 1966 by a nest of freethinkers (that lovely anachronistic term dating from the 17th century) in southwestern Michigan and recently rediscovered and restored.
Morse's contribution, to use anachronistic terms, was not so much hardware as software.
He even polices his language to make sure no anachronistic terms or expressions have crept in.
Such is the distance from the movement, from principled heroism to licensed resentment, from social justice (the very term sounds anachronistic) to the spoils system of preferences, from celebrating a remarkable man to fabricating a victim.
AV: I would say he was more of a fellow traveler, if I can use an anachronistic 1950s, McCarthy-era term.
For example, such terms as "anachronistic," "irrelevant," "emasculated," and "substantially redundant" were commonly used (Handley 1998, p. 1).
