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chartist

chartist noun: a financial analyst who attempts to predict future movements in the prices of shares or other financial instruments by looking for patterns in charts of historical data.

Noun (1)

chartist (plural chartists)

  1. A financial analyst who attempts to predict future movements in the prices of shares or other financial instruments by looking for patterns in charts of historical data.

Noun (2) capitalized: Chartist

Chartist (plural Chartists)

  1. (historical) A supporter of the Chartism reform movement in the United Kingdom.
    • There to be a real blessing, raising new corn for us, purchasing new webs and hatchets from us; leaving us at least in peace; instead of staying here to be a physical-force Chartist, unblessed and no blessing!1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out

Adjective capitalized: Chartist

Chartist (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Relating to Chartism.
    • As to the Chartist agitation, there is this to be said of it, that it was thoroughly a working-class movement, and it was caused by the simplest and most powerful of all causes—hunger.1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 102

Forms of chartist

pluralchartists
pluralChartists

Origin of chartist

From chart + -ist.

From chart(er) + -ist, see Chartism.

Words that rhyme with chartist

Questions about chartist

What does chartist mean?
Chartist means a financial analyst who attempts to predict future movements in the prices of shares or other financial instruments by looking for patterns in charts of historical data.
What part of speech is chartist?
Chartist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of chartist?
The plural of chartist is chartists.

Words near chartist in the dictionary

  1. Chartiers
  2. charting
  3. chartings
  4. chartism
  5. Chartisms
  6. chartist
  7. chartists
  8. chartjunk
  9. chartless
  10. chartlessness
  11. chartlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chartist (page history and authors); Chartist (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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