Entry Word: modern

Function: adjective

Meaning: being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles <this hairstyle is absolutely the most modern fashion out there>

Synonyms contemporary, current, hot, mod, modernistic, new, newfangled, new-fashioned, present-day, red-hot, space-age, ultramodern, up-to-date

Related Words fashionable, in, modish, stylish; last, latest; modernized, updated; futuristic, nontraditional

Near Antonyms anachronistic; aged, age-old, ancient, antediluvian, hoary, old, venerable; bygone, former, late, olden, past; antique, historic, historical; obsolete, outmoded, outworn; old-world; discarded, disused, moth-eaten; forgotten, remote; ageless, dateless, timeless

Antonyms antiquated, archaic, dated, fusty, musty, noncontemporary, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old-time, out-of-date, passé