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avant-garde

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up-to-date
adj. current
  • abreast
  • advanced
  • all the rage
  • au courant
  • avant-garde
  • brand-new
  • contemporary
  • current
  • cutting edge
  • dashing
  • expedient
  • faddish
  • fashionable
  • fitting
  • happening
  • hot
  • in
  • in fashion
  • in vogue
  • in-thing
  • modern
  • modernistic
  • modish
  • neoteric
  • new
  • newest
  • newfangled
  • now
  • opportune
  • popular
  • red-hot
  • state of the art
  • state-of-the-art
  • stylish
  • suitable
  • timely
  • today
  • trendy
  • up
  • up-to-the-minute
  • with it
  • with-it
  • à la mode

way-out
adj. unconventional
  • avant-garde
  • esoteric
  • exotic
  • experimental
  • far-out
  • nonconformist
  • odd
  • offbeat
  • peculiar
  • quirky
  • strange
  • untraditional
  • unusual

far out
adj. unusual
  • avant-garde
  • bohemian
  • contemporary
  • cool
  • deep
  • groovy
  • hippie
  • mod
  • modern
  • modernistic
  • nonconformist. quirky
  • off the wall
  • offbeat
  • out of this world
  • rad
  • radical
  • ultramodern
  • unconventional
  • unorthodox
  • way out
  • weird
  • wild

in vogue
adj. in the current style
  • a la mode
  • all the rage
  • avant-garde
  • chi-chi
  • chic
  • craze
  • dernier cri
  • fad
  • fashionable
  • happening
  • hip
  • in
  • in fashion
  • in style
  • in the latest style
  • in thing
  • in with it
  • latest fad
  • latest fashion
  • latest thing
  • latest wrinkle
  • mod
  • modern
  • modish
  • new look
  • on the cutting edge
  • smart
  • stylish
  • swank
  • trendsetting
  • trendy

innovatory
adj. inventive
  • adroit
  • artistic
  • avant-garde
  • breaking new ground
  • causative
  • constructive
  • creative
  • demiurgic
  • deviceful
  • fertile
  • forgetive
  • formative
  • fruitful
  • gifted
  • imaginative
  • ingenious
  • innovational
  • innovative
  • inspired
  • original
  • originative
  • poetical
  • productive
  • resourceful
  • teeming

latter-day
adj. modern
  • avant-garde
  • coincident
  • concomitant
  • concurrent
  • contempo
  • contemporary
  • current
  • cutting-edge
  • fresh
  • last word
  • late
  • latest
  • leading-edge
  • modernistic
  • modernized
  • modish
  • neoteric
  • new-fashioned
  • newfangled
  • novel
  • now
  • present
  • present-day
  • prevailing
  • prevalent
  • recent
  • state-of-the-art
  • stylish
  • today
  • twenty- first century
  • up-to-the-minute
  • with-it

liberalistic
adj. liberal
  • advanced
  • avant-garde
  • broad
  • broad-minded
  • catholic
  • enlightened
  • flexible
  • free
  • general
  • high-minded
  • humanistic
  • humanitarian
  • indulgent
  • intelligent
  • interested
  • latitudinarian
  • left
  • lenient
  • libertarian
  • loose
  • magnanimous
  • permissive
  • progressive
  • radical
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • receiving
  • receptive
  • reformist
  • tolerant
  • unbiased
  • unbigoted
  • unconventional
  • understanding
  • unorthodox
  • unprejudiced

subterrestrial
adj. underground
  • alternative
  • avant-garde
  • clandestine
  • concealed
  • covert
  • experimental
  • hidden
  • hush-hush
  • hypogeal
  • hypogean
  • hypogeous
  • on the QT
  • on the sly
  • private
  • radical
  • resistant
  • resistive
  • revolutionary
  • subterranean
  • surreptitious
  • unbowed
  • unconventional
  • under wraps
  • undercover
  • unusual
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Word Origin & History

avant-garde (also avant garde, avantgarde); Fr., lit. "advance guard" (see avant + guard). Used in Eng. 15c.-18c. in a literal, military sense; borrowed again 1910 as an artistic term for "pioneers or innovators of a particular period."

Example Sentences for avant-garde

Reading the avant-garde stuff of nowadays, usually the contrast is merely grotesque, still I keep finding parallels.

Unlike elsewhere in Eastern Europe, there has been no experimental or avant-garde theater in Bulgaria.

She got possession of the kiln, as usual, and the ass was sent to graze on the green; but Mary was only the avant-garde.

The avant-garde of 500 regulars and 400 provincials, commanded by Lieut.-Col.

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