Word.ws English Dictionary

temporist

temporist noun: one who temporizes; temporizer.

Noun

temporist (plural temporists)

  1. (obsolete) One who temporizes; temporizer
    • Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide.1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page)

Forms of temporist

pluraltemporists

Questions about temporist

What does temporist mean?
Temporist means one who temporizes; temporizer.
What part of speech is temporist?
Temporist is a noun.
What is the plural of temporist?
The plural of temporist is temporists.

Words near temporist in the dictionary

  1. temporisest
  2. temporiseth
  3. temporising
  4. temporisingly
  5. temporisings
  6. temporist
  7. temporists
  8. temporization
  9. temporizations
  10. temporize
  11. temporized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: temporist (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: “temporist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/temporist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.