1. Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
   "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric" 
2. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style
   "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"
   - mod, modernistic 
3. Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture 
4. Ahead of the times
   - advanced, forward-looking, innovative

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
   - modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font

1. Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
   "Modern English"
   - New

Derived forms: modernest, moderns, moderner

See also: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, contemporary, current, fashionable, late, modern-day, moderne, modernism, modernity, modernness, neo, new, nonclassical, progressive, redbrick [Brit], red-brick [Brit], stylish, ultramodern

Type of: individual, mortal, person, proportional font, somebody, someone, soul

Antonym: nonmodern, old style

Encyclopedia: Modern Modern, Timisoara Modern, TimiÅŸoara

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