modernizer

Noun

Meaning

One who modernizes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pacer modern developer leader pioneer modernist reformer visionary forerunner modifier innovator pragmatist changer pacemaker bellwether
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Antonyms

convert hand old follower loser antiquated
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Examples

The clerical class had been on the defensive ever since the 1920s when the secular, anti-clerical modernizer Reza Shah Pahlavi rose to power. Source: Internet

Shiki main Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) was a reformer and modernizer. Source: Internet

Jon Caramanica, other music critic of The New York Times, called Houston "R&B's great modernizer", adding "slowly but surely reconciling the ambition and praise of the church with the movements and needs of the body and the glow of the mainstream". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

modernization modernize modernized modernly modernness Modesitt