modern

Adjective
  1. Belonging to the modern era;
    Since the Middle Ages (synset 301539804)
    "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"
    also:
    • current - occurring in or belonging to the present time
    • late - being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
    • new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
    tells us about: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness - the quality of being current or of the present
    similar to:
    • contemporary, modern-day - characteristic of the present
    • neo - (used as a combining form) recent or new
    • red-brick, redbrick - of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century
    • ultramodern - extremely modern
    • moderne - of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes
  2. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style (synset 300976094)
    "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"
    similar to: fashionable, stylish - being or in accordance with current social fashions
    same as: mod, modernistic
  3. Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture (synset 300415873)
    similar to: nonclassical - not classical
  4. Ahead of the times (synset 301882360)
    "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"
    similar to: progressive - favoring or promoting progress
    same as: advanced, forward-looking, innovative
  5. Used of a living language;
    Being the current stage in its development (synset 300824544)
    "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
    referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    similar to: late - of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
    same as: new
Noun
  1. A contemporary person (synset 110346217)
    is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
  2. A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes (synset 106839776)
    is a type of: proportional font - any font whose different characters have different widths
    same as: bodoni, bodoni font, modern font

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