Newfangled vs Neoteric - What's the difference?
newfangled | neoteric |
(usually, derogatory, or, humorous) Contemptibly modern, unfamiliar, or different.
Modern, new-fangled.
* Fitzed. Hall
New; recent.
*"Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?" — The Toronto Star , August 21, 1998
*"A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext'' and ''ergodic'', are in order." — ''Cybertext , 1997, Espen Aarseth.
A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
*, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140:
*:Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
Someone with new or modern ideas.
As adjectives the difference between newfangled and neoteric
is that newfangled is (usually|derogatory|or|humorous) contemptibly modern, unfamiliar, or different while neoteric is modern, new-fangled.As a noun neoteric is
a modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).newfangled
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Alternative forms
* new-fangledAdjective
(-)- newfangled electronic gadgets that cost a lot and do little
neoteric
English
Alternative forms
* neotericalAdjective
(-)- Our neoteric verbs.''
Noun
(en noun)External links
*Dictionary.com's entry for neoteric.
