Modernly
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a modern manner or style.
"The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them."
- 2 In modern times; recently.
"If our painters must clothe their portraits in idealities at all, let us at once return to the old taste in this beautiful branch of the fine arts, – as we have modernly done in our buildings, and partially in our statues […]"
Example
More examples"The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them."
Etymology
From modern + -ly.
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