modernist

[mod-er-nist]

noun

1. a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.

2. a person who advocates the study of modern subjects in preference to ancient classics.

3. an adherent of modernism in theological questions.

adjective

1. of modernists or modernism.

Other Word Forms

• antimodernist noun
• hypermodernist noun
• promodernist adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of modernist¹

First recorded in 1580–90; modern + -ist

Example Sentences

But that figure might not surprise lovers of modernist architecture who know it as Case Study House #22.

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Sotheby’s has moved into Marcel Breuer’s 1966 modernist landmark that looks like an inverted ziggurat and once famously housed the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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While the modernists’ innovations made significant waves in literary and academic circles, they also prepared the public for similar approaches from writers working in more popular genres.

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There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist.

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Stretched over three floors of the spiralling modernist building, his images captured the span of Ukraine's struggle for independence: 35 years trying to wrest itself from Russian control.

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