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modernising

modernising is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernizing.

modernising is the present participle and gerund of modernise.

Meaning of modernizing

Adjective

modernizing (comparative more modernizing, superlative most modernizing)

  1. Reformist; tending to modernize.
    • In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role.1968, Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, →ISBN, page 203

Forms of modernising

comparativemore modernising
superlativemost modernising

Questions about modernising

What is modernising the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Modernising is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernizing.

Words near modernising in the dictionary

  1. modernised
  2. moderniser
  3. modernisers
  4. modernises
  5. modernish
  6. modernising
  7. modernism
  8. modernisms
  9. modernist
  10. modernist cooking
  11. modernist cuisine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: modernising (page history and authors); modernizing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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