individualist
individualist noun: someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
Noun
individualist (plural individualists)
- Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
- Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
- Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
- However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14
- Miró was too much of an individualist to simply subscribe to an aesthetic party platform of Mediterranean art, which wanted to move forward, but only at a safe trot.2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 18
- Synonyms:
- free spirit
individualist meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Malay
individualist in Tamil
- எண்ணம், செயல் முதலியவைகளில் தனிப்பாணியுடையவர், தனித்துவவாதி, தனிப்பான்மைவாதி
individualist in Malayalam
- nonconformist, free spirit, individual
- സ്വതന്ത്രചിന്താഗതിക്കാരൻ, സ്വതന്ത്രവ്യക്തി, കാമകൃത്ത്, സ്വേച്ഛപോലെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നവൻ, സ്വതന്ത്രവ്യക്തിത്വമുള്ളയാൾ, വ്യക്തിമാഹാത്മ്യവാദി
individualist in Malay
- someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system
- individualis
- someone who does as they wish
- individualis
Examples of individualist in a sentence
- Both were individualists, and both were contrarians by nature, dedicated to making people uncomfortable.
- Its closest historical links are with the “individualist anarchism” of Benjamin R.
- Is a conscious individualist, cold-blooded, pitiless, working only for himself, and believing in nothing but himself.
Synonyms of individualist
Forms of individualist
| plural | individualists |
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Origin of individualist
From individual + -ist.
Phrases with individualist
Questions about individualist
- What does individualist mean?
- Individualist means someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
- What is individualist in Tamil?
- Individualist in Tamil is எண்ணம், செயல் முதலியவைகளில் தனிப்பாணியுடையவர், தனித்துவவாதி. See Individualist meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is individualist?
- Individualist is a noun.
- What is the plural of individualist?
- The plural of individualist is individualists.
Words near individualist in the dictionary
Source and license
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