Meanings
adjectiveunmodernist (comparative more unmodernist, superlative most unmodernist)
comparative more unmodernist · superlative most unmodernist
- 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.
2007 December 14, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times
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unmodernist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmodernist
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“unmodernist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmodernist. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmodernist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmodernist.
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