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modernist¹

adjective more modernist · most modernist

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of modernism. Watercolor is not just a romantic or old-fashioned medium, said Mr. [Thomas W.] Schaller, a renderer who began his career as an architect in Boston, but a way “to apply a sense of luminosity to more modernist design.”

noun modernists

  1. A follower or proponent of modernism.

modernist²

Where it comes from

Ellipsis of Modernist Cuisine, a book on molecular gastronomy.

adjective more modernist · most modernist

  1. Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy.

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Closest in meaning: neo, innovator, futurist, contemporary, modernizer, avant-gardist, progressive, neoteric, iconoclast, ultramodernist, trendsetter, trailblazer, pioneer, reformer, radical, experimentalist

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adj relating to modernism

Españolmodernista
中文後現代主義的 /后现代主义的 xiàndàizhǔyì de
हिन्दीआधुनिकतावादी ādhuniktāvādī
Françaismoderniste
Ελληνικάμοντερνιστικός monternistikós, νεωτερικός neoterikós

noun follower of modernism

Españolmodernista
中文現代主義者 /现代主义者 xiàndàizhǔyìzhě
हिन्दीआधुनिकतावादी ādhuniktāvādī
Françaismoderniste
Ελληνικάμοντερνιστής monternistís, νεωτεριστής neoteristís

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@misc{modernist_2026,
  title = {modernist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/modernist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}