Antonyms for modern

Antonyms for (noun) modern

Main entry: modern, modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font

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

Antonyms: old style, old style font

Definition: a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes


Antonyms for (adj) modern

Main entry: modern

Definition: belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages

Usage: modern art; modern furniture; modern history; totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric

Antonyms: nonmodern

Definition: not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time


Main entry: modern, advanced, forward-looking, innovative

Definition: ahead of the times

Usage: the advanced teaching methods; had advanced views on the subject; a forward-looking corporation; is British industry innovative enough?

Antonyms: regressive

Definition: opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state


Antonyms: regressive

Definition: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases


Main entry: New, Modern

Definition: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

Usage: Modern English; New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew

Antonyms: middle

Definition: between an earlier and a later period of time


Antonyms: early

Definition: at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time


Antonyms: early

Definition: being or occurring at an early stage of development


Antonyms: middle

Definition: of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages


Antonyms: early

Definition: of an early stage in the development of a language or literature


Antonyms: too soon, ahead of time, early

Definition: before the usual time or the time expected


Main entry: modern

Definition: characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

Antonyms: classic, classical

Definition: of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture


Main entry: mod, modern, modernistic

Definition: relating to a recently developed fashion or style

Usage: their offices are in a modern skyscraper; tables in modernistic designs;

Antonyms: unstylish, unfashionable

Definition: not in accord with or not following current fashion


Antonyms: unstylish, styleless

Definition: lacking in style or elegance


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