Unmodernist

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not modernist.

    "The creaky plywood floor he has laid down — a replica of the one in his studio — reinforces a sense of impurity and instability, unmodernist if not necessarily antimodernist, like late Ad Reinhardt."

Example

More examples

"The creaky plywood floor he has laid down — a replica of the one in his studio — reinforces a sense of impurity and instability, unmodernist if not necessarily antimodernist, like late Ad Reinhardt."

Etymology

From un- + modernist.

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