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nuclearist

nuclearist adjective: supportive of nuclear technology, especially nuclear weapons.

Adjective

nuclearist (comparative more nuclearist, superlative most nuclearist)

  1. Supportive of nuclear technology, especially nuclear weapons.
    • It is argued that these texts display the limits of nuclearist subjectivity, representing the possibilities and limitations of a space predicated on the loss of atomic self-control.1997, Steven John Dorney, Nuclear fables: a study of narratives from the atomic age
    • The nuclearist state would choose to maintain a nuclear force even if all other states declared they would not.2018, Bruce Larkin, Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France and China in the global governance of nuclear arms

Forms of nuclearist

comparativemore nuclearist
superlativemost nuclearist

Origin of nuclearist

From nuclear + -ist.

Questions about nuclearist

What does nuclearist mean?
Nuclearist means supportive of nuclear technology, especially nuclear weapons.
What part of speech is nuclearist?
Nuclearist is an adjective.

Words near nuclearist in the dictionary

  1. nuclearise
  2. nuclearised
  3. nuclearises
  4. nuclearising
  5. nuclearism
  6. nuclearist
  7. nuclearite
  8. nuclearites
  9. nuclearities
  10. nuclearity
  11. nuclearization

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