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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211. The modern furniture was out of keeping with the old house.
212. On many modern wooden boats, epoxy coatings will have been used as a base for varnishing.
213. She believed she had come up with one of the greatest innovations of modern times.
214. Ten model farms have been set up to showcase modern production methods.
215. Chinese geologists are pitting their knowledge, skill and modern technical equipment against nature in an effort to get more oil for their country.
216. The bright modern painting stares out at you in the otherwise conservative gallery.
217. The word "gay" took on its modern meaning in the 1960s.
218. Van Gogh had a major influence on the development of modern painting.
219. A visit to the museum introduced the students to modern art.
220. They wouldn't like to live without modern conveniences such as microwaves.
221. Modern luxury ships are a pale imitation of the glamour and style of the early ocean liners.
222. I like modern art to a certain extent/degree(sentencedict.com), but I don't like the really experimental stuff.
223. Alan Turing's work led onto the development of modern computers.
224. Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.
225. Electricity provides us with warmth and light and all our modern home comforts.
226. I sat down on one of those modern chairs with holes in it and waited.
227. The use of modern weapons has made it more difficult to protect civilians from aerial bombardment.
228. Irving's work bears comparison with the best of the modern novelists.
229. The mass media have been vested with significant power as social and political agents in modern developed societies.
230. In many ways, it was a very modern school for its time.
231. In some modern fashions we can see shades of the 1930s.
231. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
232. There is not much crossover between readers of modern and historical romances.
233. Modern examples of this type of weaving showed little deviation from traditional patterns.
234. I can't stand modern music; give me Bach and Mozart every time!
235. Only the names are ancient; the characters are modern and contemporary.
236. Simpson's much vaunted discoveries are in fact commonplace in modern sociology.
237. The assassination somehow transfigured Kennedy into a modern American saint.
238. He is living proof of the wonders of modern medicine.
239. On his latest album, Kowalski trips up attempting more modern songs.
240. With all the wonders of modern technology, why has no one come up with a way to make aircraft quieter?
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.