ART DECO Synonyms

• 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

• refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

• being or in accordance with current social fashions

• having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress

• popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time

• 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

• 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

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing

• having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress

• being or in accordance with current social fashions

• in accord with the latest fad

• a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production