neoteric /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/noun 3adjective 2forms 1 noun3 •Someone with new or modern ideas. •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. — 2001 •(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. adjective2 •Modern, new-fangled.Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous. — 1873 •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? — 1998 formsneoterics
