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synonyms for avant-garde

  • advanced
  • ahead of its time
  • cutting-edge
  • experimental
  • groundbreaking
  • innovative
  • innovatory
  • inventive
  • leading-edge
  • modern
  • new
  • new-wave
  • original
  • pioneering
  • progressive
  • revolutionary
  • state-of-the-art
  • trailblazing
  • ultramodern
  • unorthodox
  • daring
  • forward-looking
  • forward-thinking
  • hip
  • last-word
  • nonconformist
  • off the beaten path
  • radical
  • Bohemian
  • offbeat
  • unconventional
  • unfamiliar
  • unorthodox
  • untraditional
  • way-out

antonyms for avant-garde

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  • behind the times
  • old-fashioned
  • orthodox
  • outdated
  • traditional
  • conservative
  • moderate
  • conventional
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How to use avant-garde in a sentence

Ils firent mille tentatives et ceremonies avant que nous aborder.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUS
Mais c'est là une mesure d'un intérêt défensif, qui ne fera pas faire un pas en avant.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
The day before her trial, her advocate, Chauveau de la Garde, visited her to consult respecting her defense.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Keepe from me, garde thy life, Or as thou hast liud like a goate, thou shaltDye like a sheepe.
THE FATAL DOWRYPHILIP MASSINGER
Ils travaillaient dans le champ, voisin du bois, je suis all les voir tandis que vous marchiez en avant.
BARON D'HOLBACHMAX PEARSON CUSHING
This horrid purpose would have been executed had it not been for General La Garde, the commandant of the department.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXE
The popular term for the prison in which refractory members of the Garde Nationale were confined.
VIE DE BOHMEORLO WILLIAMS
"Et longtemps depuis ne faisoient sermon qu'ilz Acab et Hisabel et leurs perscutions ne fussent mis par eux en avant," etc.
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTSHENRY BAIRD
Weber Hastings acted as guide, or rather avant-courier, since all knew the route that was to be followed.
THE PHANTOM OF THE RIVEREDWARD S. ELLIS
Mrime gives the following note: C'est l'usage en Russie de prendre de l'eau-de-vie un peu avant le diner.
CONTES FRANAISDOUGLAS LABAREE BUFFUM
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO AVANT-GARDE

  • avant-garde
  • bizarre
  • classical
  • dreamlike
  • modernistic
  • striking
  • surreal
  • surrealistic
  • alternative
  • artistic
  • avant-garde
  • eccentric
  • experimental
  • far-out
  • free-spirited
  • idiosyncratic
  • nonconformist
  • offbeat
  • original
  • unconventional
  • unorthodox
  • way-out
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