modernist
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- adjective
- /ˈmɒdərnɪst/
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modernista
- Many writers in the 20th century embraced a modernist style, breaking away from traditional narrative forms.
- modernist aesthetic
- modernist art
- modernist architecture
We get something that is a late modernist kind of play.
- We get something that is a late modernist kind of play.
- But but that was a modernist thing to do, to shock and surprise somebody.
- So often we take a very modernist approach to curiosity and creativity.
- Well, I won't read the whole thing out to you, but it appears to be modernist avant-garde religious fiction, which is of course my favorite genre.
- And it's probably the most telling of the modernist cuisine recipes.
- The main key materials are marble as beautiful stone, marble, a modernist white oak, and then a champagne metal.
Examples
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But more tellingly, his cognitive mapping remains yet another version of the modernist desire for the renewal of perception.
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This was one of the first modernist banks in America.
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We get something that is a late modernist kind of play.
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It's one of the first modernist banks in the United States.
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First Christian is considered... one of the first modernist churches in America.
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So often we take a very modernist approach to curiosity and creativity.
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And it's probably the most telling of the modernist cuisine recipes.
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It is also representative of late modernist formal characteristics.
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Brooks articulates a set of modernist aspirations for a kind of art that challenges its viewers.
Academic text (2011) -
He's also one of the best chefs in the world, renowned for modernist cuisine, we like to call it, some people call it molecular gastronomy.
Synonyms
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Relating to new styles in art or music that break from old forms
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Being new and unusual in art, fashion, or music
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A style that looks like recent art, buildings, or furniture
Antonyms
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Modernist as an adjective comes from modern, from Latin modo meaning 'just now', so it describes ideas, styles, or buildings that are 'of now' and often try new forms instead of old ones.