modern

Adjective

• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
  • Modern English
    
  • New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew
    

• ahead of the times
  • the advanced teaching methods
    
  • had advanced views on the subject
    
  • a forward-looking corporation
    
  • is British industry innovative enough?
    

• characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

• relating to a recently developed fashion or style;
  • their offices are in a modern skyscraper
    
  • tables in modernistic designs
    

• belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
  • modern art
    
  • modern furniture
    
  • modern history
    
  • totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric
    

Noun

• a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

• a contemporary person

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Modern , New , advanced , forward-looking , innovative , mod , modernistic , modern font , Bodoni , Bodoni font
• Antonyms: 
  nonmodern , old style , old style font