modern | | |
n. (person) | 1. modern | a contemporary person. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
n. (communication) | 2. bodoni, bodoni font, modern, modern font | a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes. |
| ~ proportional font | any font whose different characters have different widths. |
adj. | 3. modern | belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages.; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" |
| ~ current | occurring in or belonging to the present time.; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" |
| ~ late | being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast" |
| ~ contemporary, modern-day | characteristic of the present.; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" |
| ~ neo | (used as a combining form) recent or new.; "`neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'" |
| ~ red-brick, redbrick | of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century. |
| ~ ultramodern | extremely modern.; "Dadism and ultramodern art" |
| ~ moderne | of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes. |
| ~ new | not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" |
adj. | 4. mod, modern, modernistic | relating to a recently developed fashion or style.; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs" |
| ~ fashionable, stylish | being or in accordance with current social fashions.; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe" |
adj. | 5. modern | characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture. |
| ~ nonclassical | not classical. |
adj. | 6. advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern | ahead of the times.; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" |
| ~ progressive | favoring or promoting progress.; "progressive schools" |
adj. | 7. modern, new | used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ late | of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages.; "Late Greek" |
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