Definition of "neoteric" in English

adjective

1. Modern, new-fangled.

2. New; recent.

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.