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
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
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