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expressionist

expressionist adjective: of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.

Adjective

expressionist (comparative more expressionist, superlative most expressionist)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
    • “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of...2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025

Noun

expressionist (plural expressionists)

  1. A painter who paints in this style.

Forms of expressionist

Adjective
comparativemore expressionist
superlativemost expressionist
Noun
pluralexpressionists

Origin of expressionist

From expression + -ist.

Words formed from expressionist

Questions about expressionist

What does expressionist mean?
Expressionist means of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
What part of speech is expressionist?
Expressionist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near expressionist in the dictionary

  1. expressional freedom
  2. expressionally
  3. expressionful
  4. expressionism
  5. expressionisms
  6. expressionist
  7. expressionistic
  8. expressionistically
  9. expressionists
  10. expressionless
  11. expressionlessly

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