Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antimodern

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-mod-ern
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Opposed to modernity or modernization

noun

A person opposed to modernity or modernization

Example Sentences

"The third option is also nervous about modernity but in an antimodern rather than postmodern way, that is, it is alarmed rather than playful […]"
"The antimoderns firmly believe that the West has rationalized and disenchanted the world, that it has truly peopled the social with cold and rational monsters which saturate all of space, that it has definitively transformed the premodern cosmos into a mechanical interaction of pure matters."

Etymology

From anti- + modern.

Inflected Forms

more antimodern (comparative) most antimodern (superlative) antimoderns (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

antimodernist antimodernism unmodern

Synonyms

reactionary

Questions

What does antimodern mean?: Opposed to modernity or modernization
Where does antimodern come from?: From anti- + modern.

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