Meaning & use
super modern
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Meanings
adjectivecomparableinformal
Extremely modern in style, design, or equipment, often in a way that looks new and slightly futuristic.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after a linking verb: a super modern kitchen; the kitchen is super modern.
Patterns
- super modern + noun
- look super modern
- a super modern design
Their new office is super modern, with glass walls and no fixed desks.
The station looks super modern now that the old roof has gone.
She prefers super modern furniture to anything antique.
adjectivecomparableinformal
Using the newest methods, ideas, or technology.
Grammar: Often describes systems, equipment, or ways of working rather than people.
Patterns
- super modern technology
- a super modern approach to something
The hospital has super modern scanning equipment.
They run a super modern farm with drones and sensors.
Word forms
| comparative | super moderner |
|---|---|
| superlative | super modernest |
Common combinations
- super modern design
- The hotel is famous for its super modern design.
- super modern kitchen
- The flat comes with a super modern kitchen.
- look super modern
- The refurbished library looks super modern inside.
- super modern technology
- Super modern technology has changed how we shop.
- super modern building
- A super modern building now stands where the factory was.
Synonyms and how they differ
- ultra-modern
- Nearly the same meaning but slightly more formal and more common in written descriptions.
- futuristic
- Suggests a look from the future; super modern can simply mean very new and up to date.
- state-of-the-art
- Focuses on being the most advanced available, especially for equipment, not on appearance.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: super modern or modernly?
super modern vs modernly
A rare adverb meaning 'in a modern way'; it is not a substitute for the phrase super modern.
Practice
Choose the sentence that is correct.
Choose one answer.
'Super modern' is an adjective, so it fits after the linking verb 'is'. Options 1 and 3 use noun or adverb forms that cannot describe the library, and option 2 treats the phrase as a verb.
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