ahistorical
/ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.18 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Not historically true or accurate; unsupported by historical evidence.
Example Sentences
- "Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives."
- "Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it."
- "The American historian John van Engen argues that Le Goff's and Schmitt's idea of a semi-pagan medieval Europe filled with remnants of 'Indo-European folklore' is rather dogmatic and ahistorical."
Etymology
From a- + historical or ahistoric + -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
Inflected Forms
more ahistorical (comparative)
most ahistorical (superlative)