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protomodern

protomodern adjective: of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.

Adjective

protomodern (comparative more protomodern, superlative most protomodern)

  1. Of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.
    • Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE
    • Fenton, for example, veers from Victorian to protomodern.2008 June 6, Roberta Smith, “Aristocracy of Talent for an Egalitarian Art”, in New York Times

Forms of protomodern

comparativemore protomodern
superlativemost protomodern

Origin of protomodern

From proto- + modern.

Questions about protomodern

What does protomodern mean?
Protomodern means of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.
What part of speech is protomodern?
Protomodern is an adjective.

Words near protomodern in the dictionary

  1. protomite
  2. protomites
  3. protomitochondria
  4. protomitochondrial
  5. protomitochondrion
  6. protomodern
  7. protomodernism
  8. protomodernist
  9. protomodernists
  10. protomodernity
  11. protomolecule

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