modern
adjective
of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote.
antimodern
-
a word derived from
modern.
Example Sentences
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There is a certain antimodern, punitive aspect to these discussions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
I like what the historian Frederick Cooper says: scholars should stop “shoehorning political discourse into modern, antimodern, or postmodern discourses” and instead “listen to what is being said in the world.”
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2016
His methods paved the way for modern detection, and yet it's harder to imagine a more antimodern figure.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2011
Nothing irritates Maritain more than to be accused of reaction or medievalism; he insists that his "antimodern" position is actually "ultra-modern."
From Time Magazine Archive
The antimodern, or "postmodern," movement of the past decade has shaken this complacency.
From Time Magazine Archive
