Synonyms of modernized

modernized 1 of 2

adjective

as in updated

Synonyms & Similar Words

• updated
• latest
• high-tech
• last
• futuristic
• stylish
• modern
• fashionable
• hi-tech
• now
• contemporary
• nouvelle
• recent
• ultramodern
• modish
• modernistic
• happening
• in
• up-to-date
• new
• state-of-the-art
• newfangled
• current
• latter-day
• present-day
• new age
• designer
• new-fashioned
• mod
• up-to-the-minute
• space-age
• red-hot
• hot

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• antiquated
• archaic
• out-of-date
• old-fashioned
• dated
• old
• anachronistic
• old-time
• ancient
• past
• fusty
• musty
• aged
• historical
• venerable
• historic
• former
• antediluvian
• hoary
• late
• olden
• antique
• obsolete
• bygone
• age-old
• retro
• outmoded
• passé
• retrograde
• outworn
• oldfangled
• discarded
• old-world
• disused
• timeless
• forgotten
• remote
• unmodernized
• ageless
• kaputt
• kaput
• moth-eaten
• dateless

modernized

2 of 2

verb

past tense of modernize

as in redesigned

to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage

a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century

Synonyms & Similar Words

• redesigned
• updated
• streamlined
• remade
• contemporized
• reworked
• remodeled
• revised
• reengineered
• refashioned
• recast
• revamped
• redeveloped
• redid

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of modernized

Verb

After a year of construction wrapped up this past winter, the property looks entirely untouched from the outside and is gently modernized from within. —Kelly Dawson, Architectural Digest, 4 Oct. 2024

In practical terms, that means the interiors—which had been modernized by designer Tino Zervudachi in 2016—lean into country-house style once more. —Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2024

Additionally, an existing building was modernized to provide Career Technical Education lab space for robotics and advanced manufacturing courses. —Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024

Sherlock is an effortless update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s seminal detective novels, one that’s brilliantly modernized while retaining all of the source material’s classical charms. —Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024