Synonym: contemporary, forward-looking, progressive, up-to-date. Similar words: moderate, mode, model, modest, wilderness, modify, code, bode. Meaning: ['mɑdərn /'mɒdn] n. 1. a contemporary person 2. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes. adj. 1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages 2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style 3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture 4. ahead of the times 5. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.
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181. During the 19th century, Britain became the world's first modern urbanized society.
182. Modern medical search results have proved that some diseases are present by heredity.
183. Replete, guests can then retire to the modern conservatory for coffee.
184. Alvin managed to bridge the gap between ballet and modern dance.
185. Nowadays with the help of modern instruments fishing is no longer entirely dependent on the weather.
186. Many early child-rearing practices were cruel by modern standards .
187. Violent crime is only one of the maladies afflicting modern society.
188. A bridge between ancient wisdom and modern insight is now being built.
189. The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny farthing.
190. He's a dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist where cooking is concerned - he won't have any modern gadgets in the kitchen.
191. This quartet represents a major new trend in modern music.
192. You can also tour the site on modern coaches equipped with videos.
193. Modern technology enables eavesdroppers to pick up conversations through windows or walls.
194. We could look at some modern poets, like Eliot and Hughes.
195. It will take decades to bring this backward country into the modern age.
196. I don't really like modern art but I bought it as an investment.
197. The school uses a combination of modern and traditional methods for teaching reading.
198. The monarchy is seen by many people as an anachronism in the modern world.
199. This wooden instrument is the ancestor of the modern metal flute.
200. Modern industry has been concentrated in a few urban centers.
201. I have a blind spot where modern art is concerned. Sentencedict.com
202. He is one of the leading advocates for a more modern style of worship.
203. His house is an eclectic mixture of the antique and the modern.
204. If Shakespeare's plays are to reach a large audience they need to be interpreted in a modern style.
205. I put her in the top rank of modern novelists.
206. It was a modern factory - everything was really up to date.
207. They are the youngest children in modern times to face murder charges.
208. The modern opera was a bit of a disappointment; we expected it to be much better.
209. Modern farming practice has led to the virtual disappearance of this bird.
210. In some areas, modern intensive farming is giving way to the re-introduction of traditional methods.
More similar words: moderate, mode, model, modest, wilderness, modify, code, bode, modicum, erode, commodity, wooden, explode, episode, incommodious, accommodate, duodenum, accommodating, put to death, northern, southern, good evening, discern, concern, pattern, western, eastern, inferno, governor, internal.