modern
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
modern
adj 1: belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;
"modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history";
"totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" [ant:
{nonmodern}]
2: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic
designs"; [syn: {mod}, {modern}, {modernistic}]
3: characteristic of present-day art and music and literature
and architecture
4: ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had
advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking
corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" [syn:
{advanced}, {forward-looking}, {innovative}, {modern}]
5: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
[syn: {Modern}, {New}]
n 1: a contemporary person
2: a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista
Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs
and heavy downstrokes [syn: {modern}, {modern font},
{Bodoni}, {Bodoni font}] [ant: {old style}, {old style font}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Modern \Mod"ern\, a. [F. moderne, L. modernus; akin to modo just
now, orig. abl. of modus measure; hence, by measure, just
now. See {Mode}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long
past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent
period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors;
modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
We have our philosophical persons, to make modern
and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
{Modern English}. See the Note under {English}.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "modern":
Young Turk, a la mode, actual, advanced, all the rage,
all the thing, arriviste, as is, avant-garde, being, brand-new,
bright young man, chic, coincident, comer, concomitant, concurrent,
contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, existing, extant,
far out, fashionable, fledgling, forward-looking, fresh, hip, hot,
immanent, immediate, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, instant,
late, latest, latter, mod, modern generation, modern man,
modernist, modernistic, modernized, modernizer, modish, neologism,
neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new,
new generation, new man, new-fashioned, newfangled, newfashioned,
nouveau riche, novel, novus homo, now, parvenu, popular, present,
present-age, present-day, present-time, prevailing, prevalent,
progressive, recent, rising generation, running, smart,
streamlined, stripling, stylish, that be, that is, topical, trendy,
twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date,
up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, upstart, way out, with it
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