modernist
/mˈɑdɚnɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of modernism.
adj
Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth."
Etymology
Etymology tree English modern Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English modernist From modern + -ist.