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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
Ellen Willis

Meaning of "modernist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MODERNIST

modernist  [ˈmɒdənɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MODERNIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Modernist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MODERNIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism was the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief. Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, and activities of daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was the touchstone of the movement's approach towards what it saw as the now obsolete culture of the past. Nevertheless, its innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, twelve-tone music and abstract art, all had precursors in the 19th century.

Definition of modernist in the English dictionary

The first definition of modernist in the dictionary is of or relating to modern tendencies, characteristics, thoughts, etc, or the support of these. Other definition of modernist is of or relating to something typical of contemporary life or thought. Modernist is also of or relating to a 20th-century divergence in the arts from previous traditions, esp in architecture.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MODERNIST


agonist
ˈæɡənɪst
antagonist
ænˈtæɡənɪst
antimodernist
ˌæntɪˈmɒdənɪst
educationist
ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃənɪst
exhibitionist
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪst
expressionist
ɪkˈsprɛʃənɪst
hedonist
ˈhiːdənɪst
humanist
ˈhjuːmənɪst
hypermodernist
ˌhaɪpəˈmɒdənɪst
illusionist
ɪˈluːʒənɪst
impressionist
ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst
nutritionist
njuːˈtrɪʃənɪst
organist
ˈɔːɡənɪst
perfectionist
pəˈfɛkʃənɪst
pianist
ˈpɪənɪst
post-modernist
ˌpəʊstˈmɒdənɪst
protagonist
prəʊˈtæɡənɪst
receptionist
rɪˈsɛpʃənɪst
ultramodernist
ˌʌltrəˈmɒdənɪst
Zionist
ˈzaɪənɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MODERNIST

modern jazz
modern language
modern languages
modern man
modern pentathlon
modern sequence dancing
moderne
moderniser
modernism
modernistic
modernistically
modernities
modernity
modernization
modernize
modernizer
modernly
modernness

WORDS THAT END LIKE MODERNIST

accordionist
arcanist
botanist
cartoonist
columnist
communist
concert pianist
cornist
fashionist
feminist
flugelhornist
hornist
hygienist
internist
lanternist
machinist
reductionist
saturnist
saxophonist
violinist

Synonyms and antonyms of modernist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «modernist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MODERNIST

Find out the translation of modernist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of modernist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «modernist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

现代主义者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

modernista
570 millions of speakers

English

modernist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधुनिकतावादी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحداثية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

модернистской
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

modernista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আধুনিকতাবাদী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moderniste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Moden
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

modernistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

現代主義の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

근대주의자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Modernist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người ưa mới
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நவீனத்துவ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आधुनिकतावादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yenilikçi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

modernista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

modernistycznej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

модерністської
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

modernist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μοντερνισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

modernistiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

modernistiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

modernistiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of modernist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MODERNIST»

The term «modernist» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.659 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about modernist

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7 QUOTES WITH «MODERNIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word modernist.
1
John Corigliano
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
2
Stanley Hauerwas
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.
3
Bjarke Ingels
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
4
Phillip E. Johnson
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
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Leon Krier
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
6
Stefan Sagmeister
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
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Ellen Willis
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MODERNIST»

Discover the use of modernist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to modernist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia
In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an ...
James Holston, 1989
2
The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
A collection of essays examining the nature of modern art includes discussions of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Smithson
Rosalind E. Krauss, 1986
3
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist ...
The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of 'little magazines' and independent periodicals in ...
Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, 2013
4
Modernist Fiction: An Introduction
This illuminating book places the new imagination of the modernist age in its historical context and looks at how and why the pressures of early twentieth century life led to the development of this distinctive and influential literary form ...
Randall Stevenson, 1992
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Collecting as Modernist Practice
Offering the most systematic review to date of the Barnes Foundation, an intellectual genealogy and analysis of The New Negro anthology, and studies of a wide range of hitherto ignored anthologies and archives, Braddock convincingly shows ...
Jeremy Braddock, 2012
6
Modernist Literature
Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies.Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar writers such as Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, ...
Rachel Potter, 2012
7
Caribbean Modernist Architecture
This illustrated volume presents papers from this symposium by Silvia Arango, Mervyn Awon, Marcus Barinas, Carlos Brillembourg, Jackson Burnside, Jean Doucet, Belmont Freeman, David Gouverneur, Ronny Lobo, Louise Noelle, Mark Raymond, Bruno ...
Gustavo Luis More, Barry Bergdoll, 2010
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The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, ...
The aim of this volume is to negotiate a varied and open middle ground between polemical extremes of reception.
Arved Mark Ashby, 2004
9
Modernist Literature: An Introduction
This engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British modernist literature produced between 1900 and 1945.Each chapter focuses on a single decade, a distinct genre and a specific theme: the 1900s - the short story - gender and ...
Mary Ann Gillies, Aurelea Denise Mahood, 2007
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Modernist Short Fiction by Women: The Liminal in Katherine ...
Also it is transitory, flying, diaphanous. I shall pass like a cloud on the waves. — Woolf, Diary 3 218 7 Virginia Woolf s dilemma as to whether life is solid or shifting focuses on a pivotal modernist concern: the nature of the moment. For Woolf, the  ...
Dr Claire Drewery, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MODERNIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term modernist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Folk images on modernist canvas
Inside the tranquil Besant Nagar residence-cum-studio of K Muralidharan, his new modernist painting of the Vaishnavite poetess Andal startles ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
2
Post-modernist Republican reality
"""Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a group of Republican donors that British Prime Minister David Cameron had said he had no faith in ... «Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Jul 15»
3
Modernist architecture haunts Victor Burgin and Amie Siegel videos
Burgin's video A Place to Read is a 3D-modelled version of a real Turkish building, a traditional coffee house built in modernist style and then ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
4
PHOTOS: Audio Tour Highlights Modernist Architecture In Johnson …
Modernist architecture flourished in the Kansas City area in the period following World War II, particularly at the time that the Johnson County ... «KCUR, Jul 15»
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Work to soon start on 16 modernist homes in Sylvan Summit
According to a release, Forbes | Plunkett Real Estate Group are having the three-level modernist homes being designed to maximize sweeping ... «Nashville Post, Jul 15»
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Vibrant Paintings Of Modernist Peter Blume At Wadsworth
Peter Blume was a modernist, which in his case meant all kinds of things. Blume did surrealism, magical realism, precisionism. But at the new ... «Hartford Courant, Jul 15»
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“From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith” a …
Art Smith, 1969. Despite Art Smith's philosophy that jewelry was incomplete unless used to adorn the human form, fans of the modernist jeweler ... «ArtsATL, Jul 15»
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Lively Twisted Frenchman serves old-world wine and modernist
Andrew Garbarino plates a foie gras appetizer using brioche, foie gras, balsamic glaze, onion marmalade and nut butter. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
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shape of revolve modernist spinning top
This experimental spinning top provides a new, modern twist on the traditional toy Specifications Metal with black paint. 3 pieces 1 set size ... «Designboom, Jul 15»
10
Home of Iconic Modernist Architect Takes First Price Chop
It's the personal home of the architect who designed some of Chicago's most beloved buildings, but this angular house not been feeling much ... «Curbed Chicago, Jul 15»

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