purist

purist

English

Etymology

French puriste

Adjective

purist (comparative more purist, superlative most purist)

1. Of or pertaining to purism.

   Synonym: puristic

Translations

pertaining to purism

Armenian: մաքրամոլական (hy) (makʿramolakan) Catalan: purista Czech: puristický Dutch: puristisch (nl) Finnish: puhdasoppinen (fi), puristinen French: puriste (fr) Galician: purista German: puristisch (de) Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: puristisk Polish: purystyczny (pl) Portuguese: purista (pt) Russian: пури́стский (ru) (purístskij) Spanish: purista (es) Swedish: puristisk (sv)

Noun

purist (plural purists)

1. An advocate of purism.
   • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (page 38)

     One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

Translations

advocate of purism

Armenian: մաքրամոլ (hy) (makʿramol) Catalan: purista m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 純粹主義者／纯粹主义者 (chúncuìzhǔyìzhě) Czech: purista m Dutch: purist (nl) m Finnish: puhdasoppinen (fi), puristi (fi) French: puriste (fr) m or f Galician: purista m or f German: Purist (de) m, Puristin (de) f Italian: purista (it) m or f Japanese: 純粋主義者 (じゅんすいしゅぎしゃ) Kazakh: пурист (purist) Korean: 순수주의자(純粹主義者) (sunsujuuija) Polish: purysta (pl) m Portuguese: purista (pt) m or f Russian: пури́ст (ru) m (puríst), пури́стка (ru) f (purístka) Spanish: purista (es) m or f Swedish: purist (sv) c

Anagrams

• spruit, stir up, tripus, uprist, upstir

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyˈrɪst/

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• Hyphenation: pu‧rist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

purist m (plural puristen)

1. purist

Derived terms

• taalpurist
• puristisch

Related terms

• purisme

Descendants

• Afrikaans: puris

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Romanian

Etymology

From French puriste.

Noun

purist m (plural puriști)

1. purist

Declension

Declension of purist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) purist	puristul	(niște) puriști	puriștii
genitive/dative	(unui) purist	puristului	(unor) puriști	puriștilor
vocative	puristule		puriștilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnia, Serbia): pùrista

Etymology

From purìzam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǔrist/
• Hyphenation: pu‧rist

Noun

pùrist m (Cyrillic spelling пу̀рист)

1. purist

Declension

Declension of purist

	singular	plural
nominative	purist	puristi
genitive	purista	purista
dative	puristu	puristima
accusative	purista	puriste
vocative	puriste	puristi
locative	puristu	puristima
instrumental	puristom	puristima

References

• “purist” in Hrvatski jezični portal