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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.
Meanings
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of modernism.
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.
2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 53, about Liverpool Street station in London: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.”
2003 September 28, David W[illiam] Dunlap, “The Design Image vs. the Reality”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2013:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more modernist | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most modernist | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Translations (16)
el μοντερνιστικός (relating to modernism) · eo modernisma (relating to modernism) · ast modernista (relating to modernism) · fi modernistinen (relating to modernism) · yi מאָדערניסטיש (relating to modernism) · el νεωτερικός (relating to modernism) · pl modernistyczny (relating to modernism) · nl modernistisch (relating to modernism) · fr moderniste (relating to modernism) · mi angahou (relating to modernism) · es modernista (relating to modernism) · gl modernista (relating to modernism) · hi आधुनिकतावादी (relating to modernism) · nrf modèrniste (relating to modernism) · cmn 後現代主義的 /后现代主义的 (relating to modernism) · ca modernista (relating to modernism)