purist

Speech parts

1. purist - Noun

2. purist - Adjective

Meaning

One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.

One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

orthodox goody puritan pedant bluenose prude prig precise conservative moderate rigid meticulous traditionalist idealist fanatic
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Antonyms

elementary maverick left primary liberal misfit
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Hypernyms

scholastic pedant bookworm

Phrases with the word

human purist old-school purist true purist authentic purist

Anagrams

uprist upstir stirup tripus spruit

Examples

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things. John Ruskin

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none. Marcus Brigstocke

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control. Karen Marie Moning

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream? Katherine Jenkins

I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that's a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre. Mark Pellegrino

I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person. Michael Heizer

Close letter words and terms

purinyl puriri purism purist Greek puristic puristical