Modernizing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Modernizing is an adjective meaning Reformist; tending to modernize.
Meaning
Reformist; tending to modernize.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of modernize
Example Sentences
However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.”
[Gilbert Murray] was not only learned in Greek and Latin, but was a classicist of a particularly modernizing kind.
In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role.
Word Forms
- modernising
Synonyms for modernizing
Depending on context, synonyms include modernization, modernisation.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include modernisation, modernization, improvement, modern, modernise, modernised.
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