'Modernist' definitions:
Definition of 'modernist'
From: WordNet
noun
An artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles
Definition of 'Modernist'
From: GCIDE
- Modernist \Mod"ern*ist\, n. [Cf. F. moderniste.]
- 1. One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'modernist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arch-poet,
- arriviste,
- ballad maker,
- balladmonger,
- bard,
- beat poet,
- bright young man,
- bucoliast,
- comer,
- elegist,
- epic poet,
- fili,
- fledgling,
- idyllist,
- imagist,
- jongleur,
- laureate,
- librettist,
- major poet,
- maker,
- Meistersinger,
- minnesinger,
- minor poet,
- minstrel,
- modern,
- modern generation,
- modern man,
- modernizer,
- neologism,
- neologist,
- neology,
- neonate,
- neoteric,
- neoterism,
- neoterist,
- new generation,
- new man,
- nouveau riche,
- novus homo,
- occasional poet,
- odist,
- Parnassian,
- parvenu,
- pastoral poet,
- pastoralist,
- poet,
- poet laureate,
- poetress,
- rhapsode,
- rhapsodist,
- rising generation,
- satirist,
- scop,
- skald,
- sonneteer,
- stripling,
- symbolist,
- troubadour,
- trouveur,
- trovatore,
- upstart,
- vers libriste,
- vers-librist,
- Young Turk