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NONMODERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonmodern mean?
• NONMODERN (adjective)
The adjective NONMODERN has 1 sense:
1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time
Familiarity information: NONMODERN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time
Similar:
antebellum (belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War)
horse-and-buggy (relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations)
gothic; mediaeval; medieval (as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened)
old-world (characteristic of former times especially in Europe)
Victorian (typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria)
Also:
old (of long duration; not new)
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
Antonym:
modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)
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