brutalist
brutalist noun: someone that follows brutalism.
Noun (1)
brutalist (plural brutalists)
- Someone that follows brutalism.
Adjective capitalized: Brutalist
Brutalist (comparative more Brutalist, superlative most Brutalist)
- Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
- [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54
Noun (2) capitalized: Brutalist
Brutalist (plural Brutalists)
- An architect who used this style
Forms of brutalist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brutalists |
| plural | Brutalists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Brutalist |
| superlative | most Brutalist |
Origin of brutalist
From brutal + -ist.
Questions about brutalist
- What does brutalist mean?
- Brutalist means someone that follows brutalism.
- What part of speech is brutalist?
- Brutalist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of brutalist?
- The plural of brutalist is brutalists.
Words near brutalist in the dictionary
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