Definition of modern

"modern" in the noun sense

1. modern

a contemporary person

2. modern, modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font

a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

"modern" in the adjective sense

1. modern

belonging to the modern era since the Middle Ages

"modern art"

"modern furniture"

"modern history"

"totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

2. mod, modern, modernistic

relating to a recently developed fashion or style

"their offices are in a modern skyscraper"

"tables in modernistic designs"

3. modern

characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

4. advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern

ahead of the times

"the advanced teaching methods"

"had advanced views on the subject"

"a forward-looking corporation"

"is British industry innovative enough?"

5. Modern, New

used of a living language being the current stage in its development

"Modern English"

"New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"

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Quotations for modern

The modern majesty consists in work. [ Carlyle ]

She sits tormenting every guest,
Nor gives her tongue one moment's rest,
In phrases battered, stale, and trite,
Which modern ladies call polite. [ Swift ]

Modern wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste. [ William Shakespeare ]

Modern women understand everything except their husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

We extol what is old, regardless of what is of modern date. [ Tac ]

A heart doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor. Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

In mediaeval art, truth is first, beauty second; in modern art, beauty is first, truth second. [ John Ruskin ]

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The modern craze for bargains has often inflicted great hardships upon a certain class of humble toilers. [ Douglas ]

Modern women find a new scandal as becoming as a new bonnet, and air them both in the Park every afternoon. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. Sin is the only real color-element left in modern life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. [ Earl of Sterling ]

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found. [ Auerbach ]

In science, read by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

In modern England the ordinary habits of life and modes of education produce great plainness of mind in middle-aged women. [ John Ruskin ]

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature an impossibility. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

In mediaeval art, thought is the first thing, execution the second; in modern art, execution is the first thing and thought the second. [ John Ruskin ]

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

By reasoning we satisfy ourselves: by rhetoric we satisfy others. Most modern orators and rhetoricians content themselves with fulfilling the first part of this proposition. [ P. B. Randolph ]

Hypocrisy of manners, a vice peculiar to modern nations, has contributed more than one thinks to destroy that energy of character which distinguished the nations of antiquity. [ Condorcet ]

He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world, and the glories of a modern one. [ Longfellow ]

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. [ Hamerton ]

Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position. [ G. A. Sala ]

People travel the world over to visit untouched places of natural beauty, yet modern gardens pay little heed to the simplicity and beauty of these environments... those special places we all must preserve and protect, each in his own way, before they are lost forever. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, November 2001 Application Form. Dare to Be Wild movie ]

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others would also read the man. [ Disraeli ]

Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]

modern in Scrabble®

The word modern is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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modern in Words With Friends™

The word modern is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of modern

2 letter words in modern (8 words)

3 letter words in modern (14 words)

5 letter words in modern (3 words)

6 letter words in modern (Anagrams) (2 words)

modern + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving modern

Shorter words in modern

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