antimodern

Examples

• All

• The Greeks preserved their antimilitaristic ethos by fighting the Persians to defend the truth and became symbols for Anglican antimoderns.

  Academic text (2002)

• This dichotomous discourse portrayed anything or anyone not supportive of the new socialist state as antimodern, clinging to "traditional" and therefore "backward" culture.

  Academic text (2005)

• Elsewhere, I have described this as the construction of a particular subculture which, while antimodern in its interpretation of the principles and movements that produced a world in which Christianity no longer had a monopoly on cultural definition and legitimation, was quite modern in the structures it developed for its own self-reproduction and activity in the world.

  Academic text (1990)

• As an antimodern, she often organizes events that celebrate traditional crafts and skills.

• The community is filled with antimodern thinkers who value the past over contemporary innovations.

Synonyms

O

old school

vsantimodern

• Informal

112 4.6

People who follow older ideas and ways rather than new ones

opposes modern ideas and prefers older ways rather than merely following trends

T

traditionalist

vsantimodern

20 5.6

A person who holds strongly to old customs and resists change

opposes modern ideas and prefers older ways

P

primitivist

vsantimodern

1 8.7

A person who wants or lives a simpler life and likes simple early art

opposes modern ideas but does not require a move to simpler basic living

A

archconservative

vsantimodern

1 9.2

A person with very traditional political views who strongly opposes change

prefers traditional ways but is less extreme and less political

A

antimodernist

vsantimodern

8.8

A person who does not support modern ideas, values, or styles

is the same in meaning but uses a different word form

C

conventionalist

vsantimodern

8.2

A person who prefers traditional ways and customs

opposes modern ideas as a stance rather than merely following customs

N

neotraditionalist

vsantimodern

8.5

A person who wants to bring back old ways in a modern setting

opposes modern ideas and prefers older ways rather than blending with modernity

Antonyms

P

progressive

251 4.8

Supporting new social changes in politics to make society fairer

M

modernist

15 5.5

Relating to new art or design that breaks old styles

How Traditional

reactionary

8 8.6

traditionalist

20 5.6

antimodern

8.2

conservative

∞ 4.6

modernist

15 5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology