contemporary
contemporary is a 12-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
- adjective. Of the same age; coeval.
- noun. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
- noun. a person of nearly the same age as another
- adjective. belonging to the present time
"contemporary leaders"
- adjective. characteristic of the present
"contemporary trends in design"
"the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
- adjective. occurring in the same period of time
"a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"
"the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
Synonyms
Common word forms
contemporaries, contemporarily
Words from these letters
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