modern
see also NEW/OLD, PRESENT, FUTURE, FASHION
- the period we live in: the present day, today
People have farmed like this from the eighteenth century right up to the present day. ◎ We're doing a programme on the problems of young people today.
- of the present or recent period: modern, present-day, contemporary
modern history/technology ◎ modern languages ◎ the modern world ◎ contemporary design/art/music
Note: present-day and contemporary are used to talk about the present time and recent times including the last few years; modern is used to talk about ideas, art, literature, and lifestyles which have existed over a longer period (for example, 'modern art' means art during this century).
- with all the newest methods, technology, etc: modern, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, new
a modern kitchen ◎ a modern cooker ◎ up-to-the-minute computer technology ◎ a totally new way of thinking about the work environment
- very modern: ultra-modern
an ultra-modern kitchen/hotel
- very modern and using modern technology: high-tech
high-tech equipment
- not modern: old-fashioned, outdated, out-of-date
an old-fashioned typewriter ◎ outdated industrial practices
- to make sth modern and up-to-date: modernize sth, update sth, bring* sth up to date; noun: modernization; adjective: modernized
We're going to modernize our kitchen. ◎ to update a computer system ◎ It's high time somebody brought this company up to date. ◎ the modernization of the steel industry ◎ an entirely modernized flat
- having ideas that are a long way ahead of those of the period in which you live: ahead of your time; opposite: behind the times
He was brilliant but too much ahead of his time. ◎ Her ideas are a bit behind the times.
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