Neoteric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Neoteric is an adjective meaning Modern, new-fangled.
Meaning
Modern, new-fangled.
More Meanings
- New; recent.
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- (historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
Example Sentences
Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.
A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order.
Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?
Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
Word Forms
- neoterical
- neoterick
- neoterics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include uptodate, non-modern, recent, nontraditional, nonmodern, novel.
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