modern

Meanings

Plural: moderns

Noun

• a contemporary person
• a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
• Someone who lives in modern times.

Adjective

• belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
  • "modern art"
  • "modern furniture"
  • "modern history"
  • "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

Adjective Satellite

• relating to a recently developed fashion or style
  • "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"
  • "tables in modernistic designs"
• characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
• ahead of the times
• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
  • "Modern English"

Adj

• Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
• Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Synonyms

advanced, Bodoni, Bodoni font, contemporary, current, forward-looking, innovative, mod, modern font, modernistic, New, present

Antonyms

ancient, dated, former, historical, nonmodern, old, old style, old-fashioned, past, premodern

Related Words

moderne, Modernisme, modernus

Anagrams of modern