neoteric

adj

1. (not-comparable)Modern, new-fangled.

   “Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.”

2. (not-comparable)New; recent.

   “Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?”

   “A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order.”

noun

1. A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).

   “Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.”

2. Someone with new or modern ideas.
3. (historical)any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.