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more modern

ADJECTIVE

new, up-to-date

Synonyms

STRONGEST

contemporary current modernized present-day state-of-the-art stylish

STRONG

avant-garde concomitant latest novel now present recent today

WEAK

coincident concurrent contempo cutting-edge fresh last word late latter-day leading-edge modernistic modish neoteric new-fashioned newfangled prevailing prevalent twenty-first century up-to-the-minute with-it

Antonyms

STRONGEST

old old-fashioned past

STRONG

future

WEAK

ancient antiquated obsolete outdated passe

Example Sentences

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But largely since the world wars, naval blockades have taken a back seat to more modern forms of economic warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Shuttleworth said for a few seasons it had used more modern Mark 2 carriages, which have central locking.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

“If it works here, it’s a model for Phoenix and Houston and all sorts of other cities in America that are more modern, didn’t grow up around transit, but could fit transit in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

WireGuard, for its part, uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 as its encryption protocol – a slightly more modern protocol than AES-256, and is also deemed very secure.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

For the most part, he continued to use those same tools even as more modern, laborsaving power tools came to market in the 1930s.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown