Tuesday word: Contemporary

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Tuesday, Apr. 28, 2020

Contemporary (adjective)
con·tem·po·rar·y [kuhn-tem-puh-rer-ee]

adjective
1. existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
2. of about the same age or date: a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.
3. of the present time; modern: a lecture on the contemporary novel.

noun
4. a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others.
5. a person of the same age as another.

OTHER WORDS FROM CONTEMPORARY
con·tem·po·rar·i·ly, adverb
con·tem·po·rar·i·ness, noun
non·con·tem·po·rar·y, adjective, noun, plural non·con·tem·po·rar·ies.
post·con·tem·po·rar·y, adjective
ul·tra·con·tem·po·rar·y, adjective, noun, plural ul·tra·con·tem·po·rar·ies.
un·con·tem·po·rar·y, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH CONTEMPORARY
contemporaneous (see synonym study at the current entry)

SYNONYMS
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1. coexistent, concurrent, simultaneous.

SYNONYM STUDY FOR CONTEMPORARY
1. Contemporary, contemporaneous, coeval, coincident all mean happening or existing at the same time. Contemporary often refers to persons or their acts or achievements: Hemingway and Fitzgerald, though contemporary, shared few values. Contemporaneous is applied chiefly to events: the rise of industrialism, contemporaneous with the spread of steam power. Coeval refers either to very long periods of time—an era or an eon—or to remote or long ago times: coeval stars, shining for millenia with equal brilliance; coeval with the dawning of civilization. Coincident means occurring at the same time but without causal or other relationships: prohibition, coincident with the beginning of the 1920s.

Origin: 1625–35; < Late Latin contempor- (see contemporize) + -ary

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