Definitions
Person or style that deliberately breaks from older traditions.
Word origin
From modern + -ist.
Used in a sentence
“Watercolor is not just a romantic or old-fashioned medium, said Mr. [Thomas W.] Schaller, a renderer who began his career as an architect in Boston, but a way “to apply a sense of luminosity to more modernist design.””
“It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Avant-garde type”9 letters
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