modernized



a la mode, advanced, avant-garde, contemporary, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, in, mod, modern, modernistic, modish, now, present-day, present-time,

   submerse - baptise, bury, deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, engulf, founder, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, merge,

   miss - abandon, avoid, babe, baby, bachelor girl, be bereaved of, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary, bird, blink at, blunder, broad, bungle,

   stand on tiptoes - crane, extend, outreach, reach out, sprawl, straggle, stretch, stretch out ,

   aped - alike, counterfeit, ersatz, fake, favouring, following, homogeneous, identical, imitated, imitation, like, mock, phony, similar, simulated,

   unliterary - Gothic, barbarous, colloquial, common, conversational, deceived, everyday, familiar, functionally illiterate, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-educated, illiterate, informal, led astray,

   firmament - air, azure, blue sky, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, cope, empyrean, ether, heaven, heavens, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven,

   voluble - all jaw, bombastic, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, effusive, expansive, exuberant, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy,

   tough as leather - chewy, cohesive, durable, fibrous, hard, hardy, lasting, leathery, resistant, sinewy, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, tenacious,

   trilogy - clover, deuce-ace, leash, set of three, shamrock, ternary, three, threesome, trefoil, triad, triangle, trident, trimester, trinity, trio,

   painless - Mickey Mouse, casual, cinch, clear, comfortable, cushy, easy, easy as pie, effortless, facile, glib, light, no sweat, nothing to it, plain,