Modern and Strange

Modern

Modern adjective - Being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles.

Strange and modern are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strange" instead an adjective "Modern".

Strange

Strange adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.

Modern and strange are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Modern" instead an adjective "Strange".

Nearby Words: strangeness, stranger, strangely

Both words in one sentence

  • Museum of the Strange and Unusual Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9: First Impression Parts 1 and 2" depicts modern life as a funhouse museum of the strange and grotesque.
  • Series / Fringe Crapsack World: The alternate universe is a strange case: It is much more advanced technologically and medically (they had modern cell phones in the mid-80s).
  • In older works, "bird" may instead be a term for an older man, usually resulting in a modern audience becoming quite confused; "He's a queernote  strange old bird", for instance.
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