Modernist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Modernist is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or characteristic of modernism.
Meaning
Of, relating to, or characteristic of modernism.
More Meanings
- A follower or proponent of modernism.
- (cooking) Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy.
Example Sentences
It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.
Watercolor is not just a romantic or old-fashioned medium, said Mr. [Thomas W.] Schaller, a renderer who began his career as an architect in Boston, but a way “to apply a sense of luminosity to more modernist design.”
Word Forms
- modernists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include neo, innovator, futurist, contemporary, modernizer, avant-gardist.
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