Meanings
adjectivecontempo (comparative more contempo, superlative most contempo)
comparative more contempo · superlative most contempo
- informalContemporary; modern.
It's all very contempo—as one might expect of the musical version of a film released just four years before.
2004, Ethan Mordden, One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in The 1970s, page 231 more example
You get “sex education" now in both high school and college classes: everyone determined not to be embarassed^([sic]), to be very up to date, very contempo.
1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security, Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, page 1141
Origin
Clipping of contemporary.
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contempo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contempo
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “contempo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contempo.
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