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detailists

detailists is the plural of detailist.

Meaning of detailist

Noun

detailist (plural detailists)

  1. A person who is detail-oriented; One who focuses on detail.
    • In cost department work ability as a detailist is exceptionally desirable in the work of making entries.1915, Hugo Diemer, Industrial Organization and Management, page 263
  2. An artist who produces highly detailed work.
    • The simple art of the detailist would compel him to draw every flower that he saw : the suggestive artist, with his more vigorous appeal to the imagination, would get the effect by setting a few in the immediate foreground, and still fewer scattered over the middle distance.1889, The Japan Daily Mail, page 424

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Questions about detailists

What is detailists the plural of?
Detailists is the plural of detailist.

Words near detailists in the dictionary

  1. detaileth
  2. detailing
  3. detailingly
  4. detailings
  5. detailist
  6. detailists
  7. detailless
  8. detaillessness
  9. detailly
  10. detailman
  11. detailmen

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