modernistic
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- adjective
- /ˌmɒdərˈnɪstɪk/
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modernista
- Her modernistic design for the new museum captures the essence of contemporary architecture.
- modernistic work of art
- modernistic buildings
- modernistic house
Examples
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In that room there was what appeared to be a very modernistic dentist's chair, and there was also an examining table.
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In that, he was inspired by early modernistic artists, although he went from abstraction to nature rather than the other way around, as the modernists did.
Academic text (1997) -
8 past the handsome modernistic buildings.
Academic text (2005) -
So I again admit that you were right all along that Rome, including the Pope, is still really modernistic.
Blog text (10) -
But with the onset of the Depression, he saw modernistic commercial photography go out of fashion.
Academic text (2004) -
Just think of what that animal must have done to all that delicate modernistic interior decoration.
Fiction book (1994) -
Modernistic with classical overtones.
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Also, I think it is because it is a paradigm shift from the Modernistic concept of eternal progress as defined by growing GDP numbers toward a recognition of nature's limits.
Blog text (16) -
The collapse of modernistic ways of knowing, among both progressives and conservatives, opens a door for young evangelicals to embrace what the Spirit is saying to the churches in our time.
Academic text (2014) -
The Little Carnegie Playhouse in 1928 Manhattan included a coffee lounge, art galleries, and a card room in its art deco, modernistic interior space (fig. 5) 41.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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3.5
Relating to new styles in art or music that break from old forms
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5.5
Relating to new art or design that breaks old styles
Antonyms
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Modernistic comes from modern, which originally meant 'just now', and the ending -istic means 'in the style of'. So modernistic describes things, especially art, buildings, or design, that are made in a recent, modern style.