Antonyms for old-school

Grammar : Adj, noun

Definition of old-school

Origin : in reference to a group of people noted for conservative views or principals on some professional or political matter, 1749, from old + school (n.).

As in obsolete : adj no longer in use, in vogue
As in old hat : adj overfamiliar
As in old school : noun earliest way of doing things

Example sentences :

Fired five thousand of the old-school officers to win this war.
Extract from : « The Iron Ration » by George Abel Schreiner

Now comes the old-school doctor, and thrusts in his lancet too soon.
Extract from : « Bits About Home Matters » by Helen Hunt Jackson

Starke touched his hat with the air of an old-school gentleman.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 » by Various

Both Adah and Maria belong to that old-school class of proper feminine folk who never pick but always pluck flowers.
Extract from : « The House » by Eugene Field

He's a good detective, but he likes the old-school methods, and—he and I never got on very well.
Extract from : « Through the Wall » by Cleveland Moffett

He is the type of old-school editor who has everything handy in a profound confusion.
Extract from : « The Dead Men's Song » by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

It is to-day, even as it was of yore, thronged with all the paraphernalia of ships and shipping of the old-school order.
Extract from : « Rambles on the Riviera » by Francis Miltoun

We have seen some very bad riders among British cavalry officers, brought up in the old-school method of seat and band.
Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 » by Various

Patrick Hall was the leader of the old-school Presbyterians in his region of Virginia.
Extract from : « Cyrus Hall McCormick » by Herbert Newton Casson

He taught that “the most puzzling things of all to the old-school teleologists are the principia of the Darwinian.”
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 » by Various

Synonyms for old-school

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