contemporaneous
/kun-tem-puh-RAY-nee-us/adjectiveexisting or occurring in the same period of time
“The two manuscripts are contemporaneous but unrelated.”
- Synonyms
- simultaneous, coexistent, coeval
- Antonyms
- successive
- Root
- temp- (time)
- Memory hook
- con (together) + temp (time): sharing one era.
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