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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to recent times or the present: modern history.
  • adj. Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date: a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking.
  • adj. Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology: modern art; modern medicine.
  • adj. Avant-garde; experimental.
  • adj. Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages: Modern Italian; Modern Romance languages.
  • n. One who lives in modern times.
  • n. One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.
  • n. Printing Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to the current time and style.
  • n. Someone who lives in modern times.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period
  • adj. New and common; trite; commonplace.
  • n. A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the present era, or to a period extending from a not very remote past to the passing time; late or recent, absolutely or relatively; not ancient or remote in time.
  • Not antiquated or obsolete; in harmony with the ideas and habits of the present: as, modern fashions; modern views of life.
  • Common; trite; general; familiar; trivial.
  • In heraldry See ancient, 5.
  • Synonyms Recent, Late, etc. See new.
  • n. One who has lived or lives in modern times, or who lives at the present day, in distinction from one of the ancients, or from one who lived in time past.
  • n. One who adopts new views and opinions.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. ahead of the times
  • n. a contemporary person
  • adj. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
  • adj. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
  • n. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
  • adj. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
  • adj. relating to a recently developed fashion or style
  • Equivalent
    progressive    nonclassical    ultramodern    contemporary    modern-day    redbrick    neo-    red-brick    moderne    late   
    Antonym
    ancient    old    dated   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    person    mortal    individual    someone    soul    somebody    proportional font   
    Form
    modernise    postmodern    modernity    modernize   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    late    trite    commonplace    present    present-day    recent    up-to-date    up-to-the-minute    neoteric    fin de siecle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Unknown
    History   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    new    early    contemporary    commercial