adj
Meaning 1
Lacking historical perspective or context.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ahistoric
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ahistorical
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General-American: /ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
adj
Meaning 2
Not historically true or accurate; unsupported by historical evidence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: historical
History
Etymology
From a- + historical or ahistoric + -al.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: anhistòric — lacking historical perspective
- Chinese Mandarin: 缺乏歷史觀的 /缺乏历史观的 (quēfá lìshǐguān de) — lacking historical perspective
- Danish: ahistorisk — lacking historical perspective
- Finnish: historiaa tietämätön — lacking historical perspective
- French: anhistorique — lacking historical perspective
- German: ahistorisch — lacking historical perspective
- Italian: antistorico — lacking historical perspective
- Kazakh: тарихқа қарсы (tarixqa qarsy) — lacking historical perspective
- Polish: ahistoryczny — lacking historical perspective
- Portuguese: anistórico — lacking historical perspective
- Portuguese: aistórico — lacking historical perspective
- Russian: антиистори́ческий (antiistoríčeskij) — lacking historical perspective
- Slovak: ahistorický — lacking historical perspective
- Slovene: ahistoričen — lacking historical perspective
- Spanish: ahistórico — lacking historical perspective
- Chinese Mandarin: 不符合史實的 /不符合史实的 (bù fúhé shǐshí de) — not historically true or accurate
- Finnish: epähistoriallinen — not historically true or accurate
- Finnish: historian vastainen — not historically true or accurate