ULTRAMODERNIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

ultramodernist

noun

Definition of ultramodernist

as in liberal

a person with very modern ideas an ultramodernist in interior decoration, she freely uses materials that are recognizably man-made to achieve a look that enthusiastically embraces the 21st century

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Collins has fired back by portraying Ossoff as an out-of-touch liberal who doesn't understand the struggles of working Georgians.

— AJC.com, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
There’s nary a chalk-wielding liberal in sight, and the attorney general might pop by for Sunday dinner.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of liberal

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Its Cotton rooms are bright and quiet, overlooking one of the typical block patios of Barcelona’s modernist Eixample district, as well as the hotel’s delightful interior courtyard.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
With Carrie, the architect of an elaborate dollhouse, and Florine, a painter whose iconoclastic canvases have made their way into the modernist canon, Ettie hosted a salon frequented by the day’s avant garde.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of modernist

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Between these spaces exists a world balanced on the edge of the modern and the primitive, the high-tech and the rural, the corporeal and the mythic.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
One partner may love mid-century modern while the other leans farmhouse, but there is almost always a middle path that borrows from both.

— Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2026

Definition of modern

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But unlike other Floridians of Cuban descent — including Secretary of State Marco Rubio — Valdes ended up defending Cuba’s socialist revolutionaries and officials who have killed, jailed, tortured, and censored numerous political enemies.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
State media claimed that revolutionaries had been trained by Israel and tied them, simultaneously, to the United States, Iran, Hamas, al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and international NGOs.

— Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of revolutionary

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