modernly

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adverb

In a modern manner or style.

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Meanings

adverbmodernly (comparative more modernly, superlative most modernly)

comparative more modernly · superlative most modernly

  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.

    2004, Anthony Byars, Texas, in Fact
  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 […]

    1836, Cornelius Webbe, Glances at Life in City and Suburb, page 225

Origin

Translations

Finnish modernisti, nykyaikaisesti
  • modernistiin a modern manner
  • nykyaikaisestiin a modern manner
French modernement
  • modernementin a modern manner
Italian modernamente
  • modernamentein a modern manner
Polish nowocześnie, modernistycznie
  • nowocześniein a modern manner
  • modernistyczniein a modern manner
Swedish modernt
  • moderntin a modern manner
Cite this entry
APA

modernly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modernly

MLA

“modernly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modernly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “modernly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modernly.

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