Modern

Quick meaning: Modern is an adjective meaning Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

Meaning

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

More Meanings

1. (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
2. Someone who lives in modern times.

Example Sentences

In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.

What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]

The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.

Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease. Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.

Word Forms

• moderner
• modernest
• moderns

Synonyms for modern

Depending on context, synonyms include contemporary, current, innovative, new, last, up-to-date.

Antonyms for modern

Common opposites include ancient, dated, historical, old, old-fashioned, premodern.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include modernistic, ultramodern, contemporary, advanced, up-to-date, innovative.

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