classicist

Noun

Meaning

One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

classical scholar republican tory right augustan impressionist savant classical classic conservative moderate genius humanist reactionary cartoonist
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Antonyms

romanticist communist bolshevik Marxist good red
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Hypernyms

artist humanist creative person

Hyponyms

latinist

Examples

It is odd that Edouard [Manet] with his reputation as an innovator, who has survived such storms of criticism, should suddenly be seen as a classicist. It just proves the imbecility of the public, for he has always been a classic painter. Berthe Morisot

When I was young, I thought I was the best formalist of my time. I thought I was a revolutionary. When the big problems would come, I would solve them and write about them. The big problems came and passed by, others solved them and wrote about them. I was a classicist and not a revolutionary. Wolfgang Pauli

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot

You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre. Mary Beard

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness! Phillip Lim

My general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion. T. S. Eliot

Close letter words and terms

classicide classicise classicism classicistic classicization classicize