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modernizer

modernizer

1 4.6
A person who brings new ideas or tools to update how a place works
  • noun
  • /ˈmɒdərnaɪzər/
translation icon : modernizador
  • Musharraf did the same, openly modeling himself after Atatürk, the great Turkish secularist and modernizer.
  • modernizers and traditionalists
  • Islamic modernizers
  • modernizer goals

Examples

  • As a noted modernizer, she introduced innovative practices that transformed the educational system.

  • Cameron fancies himself a great modernizer who has brought his Conservative Party kicking and screaming into the modern age.

    Blog text (28)

  • I have a reputation as a modernizer.

    See How They Run (2022)

  • A week ago you were the great modernizer making speeches about the "people's princess."

    The Queen (2006)

  • Many have long been simultaneously traditionalists and modernizers.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The modernizers wanted to move the DNA away from its stagnant adherence to traditional strategies and policies.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The company hired a modernizer to update its outdated technology and improve efficiency.

  • The city appointed a modernizer to help integrate smart technologies into everyday public services.

Synonyms

pioneer
vsmodernizer
113 4.2

A person among the first to develop new ideas or ways of doing things

focuses on updating existing systems rather than being among the first
innovator
vsmodernizer
38 4.3

A person who creates new ideas or ways of doing things

focuses on updating existing practices or technologies to be current
trailblazer
vsmodernizer
12 6.8

A person who first develops new ideas or methods in a field

helps bring later or practical updates rather than inventing first methods
neoteric
vsmodernizer
9.9

A person who introduces new ideas in art or writing

works broadly to make things more modern across fields

Antonyms

traditionalist
20 5.6

A person who holds strongly to old customs and resists change

How Reformist

reformer
100 3.5
modernizer
1 4.6
innovator
38 4.3

Surface Forms

modernizer singular
modernizers plural

Morphology

modernizer = modernize (transparent) = modern + ize + er

Formed by the agentive suffix '-er' from the verb 'modernize', which itself is transparently derived from 'modern' + '-ize'.

Etymology

The word modernizer comes from modern, which means 'new' or 'of the present', plus the ending -izer that means 'a person who makes or does'. So a modernizer is someone who makes things more 'modern' or brings them up to date.