Synonyms of modernize

modernize

verb

ˈmä-dər-ˌnīz 

as in to redesign

to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage

a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century

Synonyms & Similar Words

• redesign
• update
• streamline
• remake
• contemporize
• rework
• revise
• remodel
• reengineer
• recast
• refashion
• redevelop
• revamp
• redo

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of modernize

Ultimately, Johnston said, the central issue is reliability, not resistance to AT&T modernizing its network. — Jenny Jarvie follow, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

This includes modernizing aging classrooms, replacing outdated systems and upgrading student spaces, and comes at a time when the district’s well of previous bond money from measures passed in 2002 and 2008 is running dry. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026

Its nuclear deterrent is modernized and efficient; its army is larger, and its navy far more deployable than that of its British counterpart. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

Just as oil money transformed and modernized the Gulf into city-states of gleaming skyscrapers, centuries of wine money have polished this rural corner of Burgundy into an agri-luxury oasis. — George Nelson For Artnews, Robb Report, 9 July 2026