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purist

Syllables: pur·ist/ˈpjʊəɹɪst//ˈpjʊɹ.ɪst/

purist adjective: of or pertaining to purism.

Adjective

purist (comparative more purist, superlative most purist)

  1. Of or pertaining to purism.
    • He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14
    Synonyms:
    puristic

Noun

purist (plural purists)

  1. An advocate of purism.
    • One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38

purist meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

purist in Tamil

தூய்மைவாதி

purist in Malayalam

perfectionist, pedant, formalist
ഭാഷാശുദ്ധിനിഷ്ഠൻ, പരിപൂർണ്ണതാവാദി, പാരമ്പര്യക്കാരൻ, പാരമ്പര്യവാദി, സമ്പൂർണ്ണതാവാദി, പണ്ഡിതമ്മന്യൻ

purist in Kannada

ಮಡಿವಂತ, ಪರಿಶುದ್ಧತಾವಾದಿ

Examples of purist in a sentence

  • The Eiffel programming language is somewhat purist in insisting that functions have no side effects.
  • He says that he and other purists are finding refuge in Weird Twitter.
  • My interpretation of purist became this: pass every white blaze with my full pack, with no slackpacking.

All 22 example sentences with purist

Synonyms of purist

Forms of purist

Adjective
comparativemore purist
superlativemost purist
Noun
pluralpurists

Origin of purist

Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.

Words formed from purist

Words that rhyme with purist

Questions about purist

What does purist mean?
Purist means of or pertaining to purism.
What is purist in Tamil?
Purist in Tamil is தூய்மைவாதி. See Purist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purist?
Purist can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce purist?
Purist is pronounced /ˈpjʊəɹɪst/ (UK).

Words near purist in the dictionary

  1. puriri
  2. puriris
  3. puris
  4. purism
  5. purisms
  6. purist
  7. purist Greek
  8. puristic
  9. puristical
  10. puristically
  11. purists

Source and license

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

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