modern
adjective
of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote.
unmodern
-
a word derived from
modern.
Example Sentences
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In another unmodern twist in this rescue tale, searchers also got help from ham radio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
“I called it the ‘Wyeth Curse,’” said Wanda Corn, a historian of American art, referring to the belief that his work was unmodern and more akin to illustration, and his audience “artistically and politically conservative.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
His late portraits had one primary emotional focus: on the unmodern, precious but endangered rural world that the artist grew up in and never really left.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2018
I love this weird, unmodern translation by a modernist.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2012
She considered them excessively unmodern, and strongly out of place on the lips of one whose romance had ended in disillusionment.
From Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
