Adjective contemporary has 3 senses
- contemporary, modern-day - characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
Antonym: nonmodern (indirect, via modern)
- contemporary, present-day - belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"
Antonym: noncurrent (indirect, via current)
- contemporaneous, contemporary - occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
Antonym: asynchronous (indirect, via synchronous)
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Noun contemporary has 1 sense
- contemporary, coeval - a person of nearly the same age as another
--1 is a kind of peer, equal, match, compeer
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