Contemporary vs. Historical
Difference Between Contemporary and Historical
Contemporaryadjective
From the same time period, coexistent in time.
Historicaladjective
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.Contemporaryadjective
Modern, of the present age.
Historicaladjective
About history; depicting persons or events from history.
Contemporarynoun
Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.Historicaladjective
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
Contemporarynoun
Something existing at the same time.
Historicaladjective
Set in the past.
Contemporarynoun
(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.
Historicaladjective
(uncommon) Former, erstwhile; lapsed, nominal.
Contemporarynoun
a person of nearly the same age as another
Historicaladjective
(grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
Contemporaryadjective
characteristic of the present;
contemporary trends in designthe role of computers in modern-day medicineHistoricaladjective
synonym of hereditaryor evolutionary.
Contemporaryadjective
belonging to the present time;
contemporary leadersHistoricaladjective
Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
The Royal Historical SocietyThe State Historical Society of WisconsinContemporaryadjective
occurring in the same period of time;
a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflationthe composer Salieri was contemporary with MozartHistoricaladjective
Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
Historicaladjective
(uncommon) lang=en: important or likely to be important to history and historians.
Historicaladjective
Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
Historicalnoun
A historical romance.
Historicaladjective
of or relating to the study of history;
historical scholarsa historical perspectiveHistoricaladjective
having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary;
the historical Jesusdoubt that a historical Camelot every existedactual historical eventsHistoricaladjective
belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past;
historic victorieshistorical (or historic) timesa historical characterHistoricaladjective
used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time;
diachronic linguistics
