modern
modern is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 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. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
- adjective. New and common; trite; commonplace.
- noun. A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
- noun. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
- noun. a contemporary person
- adjective. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
- adjective. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
"Modern English"
"New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
- adjective. relating to a recently developed fashion or style
"their offices are in a modern skyscraper"
"tables in modernistic designs"
- adjective. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
"modern art"
"modern furniture"
- adjective. ahead of the times
"the advanced teaching methods"
"had advanced views on the subject"
Synonyms
bodoni, new, mod, modernistic, advanced, innovative
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in modern:
Common word forms
moderns, moderner, modernes, modernly, modernest, modernise, modernity, modernize, modernness
Words from these letters
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