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
But in the 19th century there were still too many tugs in antimodern directions, too many elements of life either stifling or civilizing, depending on one's viewpoint, to allow mere anarchy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The antimodern, or "postmodern," movement of the past decade has shaken this complacency.
From Time Magazine Archive
