modern

modif.

1. Up to date

   current, new, up-to-date, latest, up-to-the-minute, stylish, modish, chic, smart, conforming, swank, late, recent, of the present, prevailing, prevalent, faddish, avant-garde, present-day, advanced, modernistic, streamlined, breaking with tradition, untraditional, new-fashioned, having the new look, contemporary, in vogue, in use, in the air, common, just out, state-of-the-art, space-age, ahead of its time, postmodern, with it*, in the swim*, newfangled*, sharp*, smooth*, mod*, cool*, now*, trendy*; see also fashionable, fresh 1.

   Antonyms old-fashioned*, out-of-date*, out-of-style.

2. Having the comforts of modern life

   modernistic, modernized, renovated, functional, with modern conveniences, done over, having modern improvements, strictly modern; see also convenient 1, improved 1.

   Antonyms Victorian*, dilapidated*, run down. *

3. Concerning recent times

   contemporary, contemporaneous, recent, concurrent, present-day, coincident, synchronous, twentieth-century, latter-day, mechanical, of the Machine Age, automated, of modern times, modernist; see also now 1, present 1.

   Antonyms old*, medieval*, primordial. See syn. study at new.new.