Synonyms of modernist

modernist 1 of 2

noun

as in liberal

a person with very modern ideas

a time when Paris was the center of the universe for modernists in the art world

Synonyms & Similar Words

• liberal
• modern
• revolutionary
• leftist
• ultramodernist
• progressive
• reformist
• extremist
• radical
• bohemian
• lefty
• revolutionist
• neophiliac
• reformer

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fossil
• reactionary
• conservative
• rightist
• fogy
• Tory
• stick-in-the-mud
• traditionalist
• veteran
• dodo
• right-winger
• old hand
• antediluvian
• standpatter
• conformist
• fuddy-duddy
• old-timer
• neoconservative
• neocon
• Bourbon
• square
• archconservative
• diehard
• Colonel Blimp
• stuffed shirt
• paleoconservative

modernist

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adjective

as in modern

Related Words

• modern
• contemporary
• modernistic
• ultramodern
• present-day
• current
• newfangled
• new age
• state-of-the-art
• designer
• new
• chic
• up-to-date
• fashionable
• stylish
• mod
• space-age
• red-hot
• new-fashioned
• fresh
• modernized
• latest
• hot
• futuristic
• nontraditional
• updated
• smart
• renewed
• latter-day
• high-tech
• last
• refurbished
• recent
• remodeled

Dissimilar Words

• antique
• old-world
• retro
• vintage
• old-time
• old-school
• old-fashioned
• quaint
• retrograde
• antiquated
• historical
• traditional
• obsolete
• historic
• old-timey
• moldy
• oldfangled
• olden
• rinky-dink

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of modernist

Noun

When the cabin became available for purchase, Susman bought it and commissioned modernist architect Carl Maston to design a house for her. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2026

Housed inside the austere modernist facade by architect John Moutoussamy, the interiors — the work of Palm Springs designers Arthur Elrod and William Raiser — were never renovated or changed. — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026

The 3,121-square-foot corner flagship is located inside a 1960s modernist building and boasts 12 large windows, six on the ground floor and six on the second level. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026

From the 20th century is a 1933 copper and gilt sculpture by California modernist artist Sargent Claude Johnson. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026

If midcentury or Italian modernist pieces aren’t your style, 2Modern also stocks more traditional office furniture for a wider range of aesthetics. — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2026

The Chemosphere, John Lautner’s modernist UFO hovering above Hollywood Hills. — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Its Cotton rooms are bright and quiet, overlooking one of the typical block patios of Barcelona’s modernist Eixample district, as well as the hotel’s delightful interior courtyard. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

With Carrie, the architect of an elaborate dollhouse, and Florine, a painter whose iconoclastic canvases have made their way into the modernist canon, Ettie hosted a salon frequented by the day’s avant garde. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

Adjective

Instead of Sektion kitchen cabinets, there’s the Frankfurt Kitchen, a model of modernist efficiency designed, in the nineteen-twenties, by the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and retrieved from an apartment in Frankfurt. — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Critics couldn’t place the work, finding it out of step with modernist abstraction. — Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Over it, a Helly Hansen long underwear shirt featuring modernist racing stripes down the sleeves, to provide a bit of visual architecture. — Heidi Julavits, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026

With their modernist French flair that is well recognized in the world of luxury travel and hospitality, Humbert & Poyet has also published its first monograph. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Since founding his multidisciplinary design firm, 22RE, in 2021, Levin has drawn enthusiasm for his sensual, modernist approach to retail and residential interiors. — Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026

Fans of modernist architecture will find much else to enjoy, too – not least in Ibirapuera Park, with its striking array of mid-century buildings by Oscar Niemeyer, including the pavilion that now houses the superb Museu Afro Brasil. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 159 Pages Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is a modernist classic that tells the story of one family’s recurring vacation to Scotland’s Isle of Skye. — Arabella Hau, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026

In the early 1960s, California real estate developer Joseph Eichler took his passion for modernist architecture to San Francisco, working with the architect Claude Oakland to design 104 single-family homes in the city’s Diamond Heights neighborhood. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2026