Word Meanings - NEOTERIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of modern times; a modern.

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• MODERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• MODERNIZATION
  The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
• MODERNNESS
  The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.
• MODERNLY
  In modern times. Milton.
• TIMESERVER
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
• MODERNITY
  Modernness; something modern. Walpole.
• TIMESAVING
  Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
• MODERNISM
  Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
• MODERNIZE
  To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.
• MODERNIZER
  One who modernizes.
• MODERNIST
  One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• OFTTIMES
  Frequently; often. Milton.