VICTORIANA Antonyms

• a person of nearly the same age as another

• characteristic of the present

• belonging to the present time

• occurring in the same period of time

• designed for or capable of a particular function or use

• involving or affecting function rather than physiology

• relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure

• fit or ready for use or service

• designed for or adapted to a function or use

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• of or relating to or resulting from industry

• having highly developed industries

• employed in industry

• suitable to stand up to hard wear

• of or relating to artistic minimalism

• a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics

• a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism

• advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics)

• belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages

• a contemporary person

• a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

• used of a living language; being the current stage in its development

• relating to a recently developed fashion or style

• characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

• ahead of the times

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved

• (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

• any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

• a person lacking intelligence or common sense

• easy and not involved or complicated

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

• lacking mental capacity and subtlety

• unornamented

• well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed

• designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow

• having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk

• make slick or smooth

• not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction

• someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility

• having a useful function

• having utility often to the exclusion of values