modern
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈmɒdərn/
:
moderno
- We've got these perfectly modern sculpty iron curls.
- modern art
- modern literature
- modern novel
But I'm doing a more modern style Alberti bass listen.
- But I'm doing a more modern style Alberti bass listen.
Examples
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I see that these are modern chairs here.
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The kinds of property most important to modern Western capitalism, however, are intangible.
Academic text (1990) -
At The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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And who gave anyone permission to program modern music?
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His designs were classic yet modern, complex yet clean.
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Do you like modern music, Senator?
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What place can such a project have in the stories we tell of modern art of the 1960s?
Academic text (2011) -
One major characteristic of the modern era is its embrace of science and the scientific method.
Academic text (1999) -
There's lots of light, glass bricks, modern lines, and windows looking out on a park.
Fiction book (1993) -
The architect designed a stunning building with a modern aesthetic that impressed all the visitors.
Synonyms
219
4.2
Belonging to the present time, often showing modern ideas
89
3.0
Happening in the time we live in
15
5.5
Relating to new art or design that breaks old styles
7
8.2
Being new and unusual in art, fashion, or music
2
5.7
Very new in design and using the latest ideas and technology
1
6.8
A style that looks like recent art, buildings, or furniture
1
9.3
New and modern in style
Antonyms
Compounds
21
3.3
Works made since the late 1800s that break traditional styles and use new ideas and techniques
3
3.6
A style of jazz with complex chords and rhythms where musicians make up music as they play
2
3.6
A style with clean lines, little decoration, open spaces, and materials like glass and metal
1
5.5
The standard form of Hebrew used in Israel today, brought back from ancient Hebrew
A bathroom device that cleans your private parts with water and often has a warm seat and dryer
- Specialized
Letters that have small thin lines at the ends and strong vertical strokes, looking elegant
A person who plants many trees and encourages others to plant trees too
The form of Hebrew spoken and written in Israel today, brought back from ancient Hebrew
- Specialized
Current ways of treating mental health problems that use new science and methods
- Literature
A person who creates or alters living things in risky, shocking ways
- Literature
A machine or system made from mismatched parts that becomes dangerous and hard to control
- Offensive
A change where society becomes softer and less strict about people's behaviour
- Archaic
A former British school teaching mainly practical and job skills instead of academic subjects
How Modern
Surface Forms
Etymology
Modern comes from Latin modernus from modo 'just now', and people used it for new ways of doing things. That's why modern art or music means styles that move away from older traditions.