modernize

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈmɑdɜrˌnaɪz/

📖 Definitions

  1. verb
    To make something more modern in appearance, style, or character; to update or renovate.; To adopt modern methods, ideas, or technology; to become more contemporary.; To adapt or alter something, such as a text or language, to conform to modern standards or usage.

🔗 Details

Word forms

3rd sing.: modernizes Past: modernized Past part.: modernized Pres part.: modernizing

Collocations

modernize the economymodernize infrastructureefforts to modernizemodernize the systemmodernize and reform

Derivatives

modernizationmodernizermodernmodernitymodernismmodernistpostmodernpostmodernism

Synonyms

updateupgraderevamprenovatereformoverhaul

Antonyms

traditionalize

Commonly confused

modernise
EN: 'Modernise' is the British English spelling variant of 'modernize'; both are correct in their respective dialects.
modern
EN: 'Modern' is an adjective or noun describing something contemporary; 'modernize' is the verb meaning to make something modern.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember the -ize ending in American English vs. -ise in British English; both are acceptable but should be used consistently within a text.

💬 Examples

  1. The city council voted to modernize the public transportation system.

  2. Many traditional industries have been forced to modernize in order to survive.

  3. The editor decided to modernize the spelling in the new edition of the classic novel.