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afrofuturist

afrofuturist is the alternative letter-case form of Afrofuturist.

Noun capitalized: Afrofuturist

Afrofuturist (plural Afrofuturists)

  1. A person who works in the genre of Afrofuturism.
    • Afrofuturists sought to unearth the missing history of people of African descent and their roles in science, technology, and science fiction.2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 17

Adjective capitalized: Afrofuturist

Afrofuturist (comparative more Afrofuturist, superlative most Afrofuturist)

  1. Relating to Afrofuturism.
    • Drawing on tropes of alienation and abduction, Afrofuturist musicians have used this idea to satirize media representations of a race-free future, commenting on the fact that the few black characters in mainstream sci-fi almost always portrayed stereotypical white characteristics or “acted white”.2010, Tammy Kernodle, Horace Maxille, Emmett G. Price III, Encyclopedia of African American Music, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 9
    Synonyms:
    Afrofuturistic

Synonyms of afrofuturist

Forms of afrofuturist

Noun
pluralafrofuturists
pluralAfrofuturists
alternative formafrofuturist
Adjective
comparativemore afrofuturist
superlativemost afrofuturist
comparativemore Afrofuturist
superlativemost Afrofuturist

Origin of afrofuturist

From Afro- + futurist.

Questions about afrofuturist

What does afrofuturist mean?
Afrofuturist means a person who works in the genre of Afrofuturism.
What is afrofuturist the alternative letter-case form of?
Afrofuturist is the alternative letter-case form of Afrofuturist.
What part of speech is afrofuturist?
Afrofuturist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of afrofuturist?
The plural of afrofuturist is afrofuturists.

Words near afrofuturist in the dictionary

  1. afrodite
  2. afroed
  3. Afroeurasia
  4. Afrofeminist
  5. Afrofuturism
  6. afrofuturist
  7. Afrofuturistic
  8. afrofuturists
  9. afroinsectiphilian
  10. afroinsectiphilians
  11. afroinsectivoran

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afrofuturist (page history and authors); Afrofuturist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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