modernized
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Made modern or contemporary; updated to reflect current styles, technologies, or methods. It describes something that has been altered or improved to meet modern standards or practices.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The factory installed new machinery and modernized its entire production line.
- They live in a beautifully modernized apartment that retains its original character.
- The country's modernized military is now equipped with advanced technology.
Advanced Usage
- "to become modernized": to undergo a process of becoming modern.
- The city's infrastructure has rapidly become modernized in the last decade.
- Used to describe systems, equipment, buildings, or approaches that have been updated from an older form.
Variants and Related Words
- Modernize (verb): to make modern; to adapt to modern needs or habits.
- The company plans to modernize its computer systems next year.
- Modernization (noun): the process of modernizing.
- The modernization of the public transport system is long overdue.
- Modernised (adjective): British English spelling of 'modernized'.
Synonyms
- Updated: Changed to include the latest information or improvements.
- Renovated: Restored to a good state of repair, often implying modernization.
- Revamped: Gave new and improved form, structure, or appearance to.
Antonyms
- Outdated: No longer current or modern; obsolete.
- Antiquated: Old-fashioned or outdated.
- Obsolete: No longer produced or used; out of date.
Adjective
- brought up to date
- modernized methods