modernist

From modern +‎ -ist.

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modernist (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to modernism.
   • 2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 53, about Liverpool Street station in London:

     It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.

modernist (plural modernists)

1. A follower or proponent of modernism.

• modernistic
• postmodernist

Clipping of Modernist Cuisine (molecular gastronomy)

modernist (comparative more modernist, superlative most modernist)

1. (cooking) Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy

• modernist cuisine
• modernist cooking

Either borrowed or from modern +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmoː.dɛrˈnɪst/

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• Hyphenation: mo‧der‧nist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

modernist m (plural modernisten)

1. a modernist (adherent of modernism)

• modernistisch

Borrowed from French moderniste.

modernist m (plural moderniști, feminine equivalent modernistă)

1. modernist

• “modernist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025