Contemporary vs Jonsonian - What's the difference?
contemporary | jonsonian |
From the same time period, coexistent in time.
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Modern, of the present age.
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Relatively recent
Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
Something existing at the same time.
As adjectives the difference between contemporary and jonsonian
is that contemporary is from the same time period, coexistent in time while jonsonian is of or pertaining to , or to his works.As a noun contemporary
is someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.contemporary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
- This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
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Synonyms
* contemporaneousAntonyms
* anachronistic: in the wrong time period * archaicNoun
(contemporaries)- ''Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
- ''The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries .
