modern
1. a contemporary person (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
Modern
• Hypernyms:
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
2. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
• Syn:
modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font
• Ant:
old style
• Hypernyms:
proportional font
1. belonging to the modern era;
since the Middle Ages (Freq. 57)
- modern art
- modern furniture
- modern history
- totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric
• Ant:
nonmodern
• Similar to:
contemporary, modern-day, neo, red-brick, redbrick,
ultramodern, moderne
• See Also:
current, late, new
• Derivationally related forms:
modernity
• Attrubites:
modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style (Freq. 6)
- their offices are in a modern skyscraper
- tables in modernistic designs
• Syn:
mod, modernistic
• Similar to:
fashionable, stylish
• Derivationally related forms:
modernism (for: modernistic), modernity, modernness
3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture (Freq. 5)
• Similar to:
nonclassical
• Derivationally related forms:
modernity, modernness
4. ahead of the times (Freq. 3)
- the advanced teaching methods
- had advanced views on the subject
- a forward-looking corporation
- is British industry innovative enough?
• Syn:
advanced, forward-looking, innovative
• Similar to:
progressive
• Derivationally related forms:
modernity, innovativeness (for: innovative)
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