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naturist

/ˈneɪt͡ʃəɹɪst/

naturist noun: one who follows a philosophical belief in a naked, natural life and prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of ecology, health, religious belief, and/or ethical concerns.

Noun

naturist (plural naturists)

One who follows a philosophical belief in a naked, natural life and prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of ecology, health, religious belief, and/or ethical concerns.

Synonyms:

nudist

Antonyms:

clothist, textilist
One who believes in the doctrine of naturism, which attributes everything to nature.
- I have thought fit to lay dovvn the tvvo foregoing limitations, […] partly becauſe they contain ſomething, that may be added to vvhat hath been lately repreſented on behalf of the divine providence (as it falls under the naturiſt’s conſideration.)1686 (indicated as 1685–1686), Robert Boyle, “A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature: […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew]...

Adjective

naturist (comparative more naturist, superlative most naturist)

Of or relating to naturism, the philosophical belief in a naked, natural life and prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of health, ecology, religious belief, and/or ethical concerns.
Relating to or believing in the doctrine of naturism, which attributes everything to nature.

naturist meaning in Malayalam

naturist in Malayalam

nudist: നഗ്നതാപ്രസ്ഥാനക്കാരൻ, നഗ്നതാപ്രസ്ഥാനവാദി

Synonyms of naturist

nudist

Antonyms

Forms of naturist

Noun
plural	naturists
Adjective
comparative	more naturist
superlative	most naturist

Origin of naturist

From nature + -ist.

Words formed from naturist

Phrases with naturist

naturist anarchists

Questions about naturist

What does naturist mean?: Naturist means one who follows a philosophical belief in a naked, natural life and prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of ecology, health, religious belief, and/or ethical concerns.
What is naturist in Malayalam?: Naturist in Malayalam is നഗ്നതാപ്രസ്ഥാനക്കാരൻ, നഗ്നതാപ്രസ്ഥാനവാദി. See Naturist meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is naturist?: Naturist can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce naturist?: Naturist is pronounced /ˈneɪt͡ʃəɹɪst/.
What is the plural of naturist?: The plural of naturist is naturists.

Words near naturist in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: naturist (page history and authors); naturist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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