What are some opposite words for contemporary?
Antonyms for contemporary
kənˈtɛm pəˌrɛr icon·tem·po·ra·ry
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term contemporary.
Wiktionary
contemporaryadjective
Antonyms:
anachronistic, archaicSynonyms:
contemporaneouscontemporaryadjective
From the same time period, coexistent in time.
Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare
Antonyms:
archaic, anachronisticSynonyms:
contemporaneouscontemporaryadjective
Modern, of the present age.
The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries
Synonyms:
contemporaneousAntonyms:
archaic, anachronistic
Princeton's WordNet
contemporary, coevaladjective
a person of nearly the same age as another
Antonyms:
asynchronous, noncurrent, nonmodernSynonyms:
coevalcontemporary, modern-dayadjective
characteristic of the present
"contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
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nonmodern, noncurrent, asynchronousSynonyms:
contemporaneous, modern-day, present-day(a)contemporary, present-day(a)adjective
belonging to the present time
"contemporary leaders"
Antonyms:
nonmodern, asynchronous, noncurrentcontemporaneous, contemporaryadjective
occurring in the same period of time
"a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
Antonyms:
noncurrent, nonmodern, asynchronousSynonyms:
contemporaneous, coeval, coetaneous, modern-day, present-day(a)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
contemporaryadjective
Synonyms:
contemporaneous, coeval
How to use contemporary in a sentence?
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa:
Not only is it the first time in a long time that we present a long movie, it is also a film adaptation to one of the main works of our literature and our contemporary writers.
That reality may short out their capacity to appropriately weigh that desire against the risk of contagion. In addition, Contemporary Families're used to associating contagious diseases with the demonstration of obvious symptoms or distress. So the absence of those may also cause people to ignore the very real dangers of potential infection.
Pure beauty dominates in his work. He demystified the fashion world and created images that resonate with a natural beauty. His photographs were both historically durable with a contemporary edge. He had a reverence for tradition, but also a taste for new.
There are many stories told in the Jim Crow Museum, but none are as horrible as these tales. The idea of using the skins of black people to make purses, shoes, belts, and other products is, of course, disgusting to contemporary Americans; however, there was a time—not so long ago—when the debasement of black Americans was so nearly complete that one could read about the skin of a black person being tanned in the same newspaper that reported the previous day’s baseball box scores.
We see today that heritage and culture comes sometimes into the forefront of conflict, the deliberate destruction, what we are seeing today in Iraq and Syria, has reached unprecedented levels in contemporary history.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2871 | contemporary | |
#16726 | asynchronous | |
#29875 | archaic | |
#79385 | anachronistic | |
#94325 | noncurrent |
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