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modernly

modernly adverb: in a modern manner or style.

Adverb

modernly (comparative more modernly, superlative most modernly)

  1. In a modern manner or style.
    • The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them.2004, Anthony Byars, Texas, in Fact
  2. In modern times; recently.
    • If our painters must clothe their portraits in idealities at all, let us at once return to the old taste in this beautiful branch of the fine arts, – as we have modernly done in our buildings, and partially in our statues […]1836, Cornelius Webbe, Glances at Life in City and Suburb, page 225

Forms of modernly

comparativemore modernly
superlativemost modernly

Origin of modernly

From modern + -ly.

Questions about modernly

What does modernly mean?
Modernly means in a modern manner or style.
What part of speech is modernly?
Modernly is an adverb.

Words near modernly in the dictionary

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

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