neoteric

Meanings

Adjective

• Modern, new-fangled.
• New; recent.

Noun

• A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
• Someone with new or modern ideas.
• any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, , , and .

Origin

• From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός, from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος.