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modernizing

modernizing adjective: reformist; tending to modernize. Also the present participle and gerund of modernize.

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
    • However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.”1970, Douglas Ensminger, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, page 529

Also used as

modernizing is also the present participle and gerund of modernize.

Forms of modernizing

comparativemore modernizing
superlativemost modernizing
alternative formmodernising

Questions about modernizing

What does modernizing mean?
Modernizing means reformist; tending to modernize.
What part of speech is modernizing?
Modernizing is an adjective.

Words near modernizing in the dictionary

  1. modernize
  2. modernized
  3. modernizer
  4. modernizers
  5. modernizes
  6. modernizing
  7. modernly
  8. modernmost
  9. modernness
  10. modernnesses
  11. moderns

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