- recent; new; modern新近的; 现代的; 新式的：
another effort by the White House to display its neoteric wizardry went awry.
白宫展示其新式才华的又一次努力失败了。
- a modern person; a person who advocates new ideas现代人; （主张新思想的）新派人。
词源
late 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek neōterikos, from neōteros 'newer', comparative of neos.