anti-modernist

adjective

an·​ti-mod·​ern·​ist ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-nist  ˌan-tī- 

variants or less commonly antimodernist

: opposed to the values of modernism or modernity

… mixture of nativist ideology, anti-modernist sentiment, political isolationism, and frankly stated racialism …

—Hilton Kramer

Prohibition, like nativism and antisemitism, tapped into deeply rooted antimodernist trends in American life; it attempted to turn back the cultural clock …

—Jonathan D. Sarna

anti-modernist noun

or less commonly antimodernist

The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture.

—Gerald Clarke

anti-modernism noun

or less commonly antimodernism

ˌan-tē-ˈmä-dər-ni-zəm, 

ˌan-tī- 

This left-wing anti-modernism is interesting or not, depending on your point of view.

—Stephen Holmes

Rather than assume the postmodern position, he has been willing to take up a very sophisticated stance of antimodernism.

—Thomas Bender

Examples of anti-modernist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Due to the anti-modernist policy after the 1930s, scores of paintings were confiscated from museums and institutions and put in special secret repositories, and the idea was to destroy all of them. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2024

These moves have all weakened the Catholic anti-modernist project. — R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-modernist

• modernist
• postmodernist