modernly
modernly adverb: in a modern manner or style.
Adverb
modernly (comparative more modernly, superlative most modernly)
- 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
- 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
| comparative | more modernly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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