Adjective: modernistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more modernistic |
| Superlative | most modernistic |
Sample Sentences
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The modernistic architecture was both ugly and unfunctional, in spite of its futuristic appearance.
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The buildings now being demolished are said to date back to the opening of the Trent Valley line in 1846. They will be replaced by modernistic structures, including a fully mechanised booking office, which will be concentrated mainly on the Low Level down platforms, [...]. [1960 November, “Talking of Trains: Tamworth to be rebuilt”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 644–645:]
Adjectives inflected like modernistic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English modern
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
8. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
9. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
10. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
11. Latin -istader.
12. Old French -istebor.
13. Middle English -ist
14. English -ist
15. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
16. Proto-Italic *-ikos
17. Latin -icuslbor.
18. Old French -iquebor.
19. Middle English -ik
20. English -ic
21. English -istic
22. English modernistic
23. From modern + -istic.
Verbs referencing "modernistic"
Finnish Adjectives
modernistinen.