Word.ws English Dictionary

punctuationists

punctuationists is the plural of punctuationist.

Meaning of punctuationist

Noun

punctuationist (plural punctuationists)

  1. In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.
    • Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’.1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN

Questions about punctuationists

What is punctuationists the plural of?
Punctuationists is the plural of punctuationist.

Words near punctuationists in the dictionary

  1. punctuation space
  2. punctuation spaces
  3. punctuational
  4. punctuationism
  5. punctuationist
  6. punctuationists
  7. punctuationless
  8. punctuations
  9. punctuative
  10. punctuator
  11. punctuators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: punctuationists (page history and authors); punctuationist (page history and authors). 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:

Cite this entry: “punctuationists.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/punctuationists. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.