adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to purism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: puristic
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
purist
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpjʊəɹɪst/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpjɔːɹɪst/
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US: /ˈpjʊɹ.ɪst/
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US: /ˈpjɝ.ɪst/
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rhymes with -ʊəɹɪst
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rhymes with -ɔːɹɪst
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noun
Meaning 2
An advocate of purism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pedant, bookworm, scholastic
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: մաքրամոլական (makʻramolakan) — pertaining to purism
- Catalan: purista — pertaining to purism
- Czech: puristický — pertaining to purism
- Dutch: puristisch — pertaining to purism
- Finnish: puhdasoppinen — pertaining to purism
- Finnish: puristinen — pertaining to purism
- French: puriste — pertaining to purism
- Galician: purista — pertaining to purism
- German: puristisch — pertaining to purism
- Norwegian: puristisk — pertaining to purism
- Polish: purystyczny — pertaining to purism
- Portuguese: purista — pertaining to purism
- Russian: пури́стский (purístskij) — pertaining to purism
- Spanish: purista — pertaining to purism
- Swedish: puristisk — pertaining to purism
- Armenian: մաքրամոլ (makʻramol) — advocate of purism
- Catalan: purista — advocate of purism
- Chinese Mandarin: 純粹主義者 /纯粹主义者 (chúncuìzhǔyìzhě) — advocate of purism
- Czech: purista — advocate of purism
- Dutch: purist — advocate of purism
- Finnish: puhdasoppinen — advocate of purism
- Finnish: puristi — advocate of purism
- French: puriste — advocate of purism
- Galician: purista — advocate of purism
- German: Purist — advocate of purism
- German: Puristin — advocate of purism
- Hebrew: טַהֲרָן (taharán) — advocate of purism
- Italian: purista — advocate of purism
- Japanese: 純粋主義者 — advocate of purism
- Kazakh: пурист (purist) — advocate of purism
- Korean: 순수주의자 (sunsujuuija) — advocate of purism
- Polish: purysta — advocate of purism
- Portuguese: purista — advocate of purism
- Russian: пури́ст (puríst) — advocate of purism
- Russian: пури́стка (purístka) — advocate of purism
- Spanish: purista — advocate of purism
- Swedish: purist — advocate of purism
- Swedish: renhetsivrare — advocate of purism