Modern
Modern adjective - Being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles.
Usage example: this hairstyle is absolutely the most modern fashion out there
Oldfangled is an antonym for modern.
Oldfangled
Oldfangled adjective - Pleasantly reminiscent of an earlier time.
Usage example: those big solid-iron phones are an oldfangled reminder of the time when you had to rent a phone from the telephone company
Both words in one sentence
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So, its modern treatment as "a fancy, oldfangled and poetic singular pronoun" is a bit truer to its very original meaning and use than its meaning and use when it was falling out of favour.
Source: Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
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Oldfangled and Modern. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/modern/oldfangled
Modern & Oldfangled. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/modern/oldfangled>.
Oldfangled or Modern. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/modern/oldfangled.
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