I. -_nə̇st noun
( -s )
Etymology: modern (I) + -ist
1. : an admirer of modern ways or things : one who asserts the superiority of modern times
its subject is the perennial conflict between conservative and modernist — Moses Hadas
2. : an adherent of modernism in religion
3. : one who practices, advocates, or admires modernism in the arts
II. adjective
: of, relating to, or characteristic of modernism or modernists