Adjective

(en-adj)

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

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*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.

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(lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Adjective

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(informal) Conforming to the zeitgeist, contemporary, trendy, modern

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, year=2001 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dr. Peter Knight , title=Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to 'The X-Files , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Routledge , isbn=9780415189781 , page=183 , passage=Behind this zeitgeisty observation, however, lies the more convincing … }}

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, year=2008 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author= , title=2009 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market , chapter= citation , genre=Language and Arts , publisher=F+W Media , isbn=9781582975436 , page= , passage=This is the major problem of the new project that I am working on — it is so zeitgeisty that each day that passes that it is not yet fully written makes it feel more and more dated. }}

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, year=2010 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=David Browne , title=Goodbye 20th Century , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=ReadHowYouWant , isbn=9781458778871 , page=348 , passage="Sonic Youth are always zeitgeisty ,” says Cafritz, “so it sounded really appealing at that moment. }}

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, year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Kim Newman , title=Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn=9781408805039 , page=173 , passage=... near future corporate wars and 'the realist underground' and was eclipsed by the zeitgeistier The Matrix (1999). }}

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, year=2010 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Gideon Haigh , title=The Office: A Hardworking History , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Miegunyah Press , isbn=9780522855562 , page=viii , passage=Social trendspotters nodded as that zeitgeistiest of journalists, The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, called for … }}