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protominimalist

protominimalist adjective: belonging or pertaining to an early form of minimalism.

Adjective

protominimalist (comparative more protominimalist, superlative most protominimalist)

  1. Belonging or pertaining to an early form of minimalism.
    • Visitors to the museum gazed on […] the many-faceted work of the Rio de Janeiro artists Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, close colleagues whose protominimalist and precociously interactive work in the ’60s (like his capes to be danced in and her hinged sculptures to be reconfigured at will) exert a...2008 March 23, Arthur Lubow, “After Frida”, in New York Times

Noun

protominimalist (plural protominimalists)

  1. An artist employing an early form of minimalism.

Forms of protominimalist

Adjective
comparativemore protominimalist
superlativemost protominimalist
Noun
pluralprotominimalists

Origin of protominimalist

From proto- + minimalist.

Questions about protominimalist

What does protominimalist mean?
Protominimalist means belonging or pertaining to an early form of minimalism.
What part of speech is protominimalist?
Protominimalist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near protominimalist in the dictionary

  1. protometabolic
  2. protometabolism
  3. protometal
  4. protomicrocotylid
  5. protomicrocotylids
  6. protominimalist
  7. protominimalists
  8. protomite
  9. protomites
  10. protomitochondria
  11. protomitochondrial

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