futurist

See also: Futurist and fütürist

English

Etymology

From future +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

futurist (plural futurists)

1. (art) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
   • 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:

     The distinction, however, seems to be that the warriors of the past went in for tournaments, which were at least dangerous for themselves, while the Futurists go in for motor-cars, which are mainly alarming for other people.

   • 2005, Alan Bartram, Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

     ‘A passion for destruction is also a creative passion.’ This statement by the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin in 1842 could have been the rallying cry of the Italian Futurists around 1910.

2. One who studies and predicts possible futures.

   Synonym: futurologist

   • 2010, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!, Random House, →ISBN, page 237:

     Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by selling them a tiny device to link the two technologies together: a computer modem.

Derived terms

• Afrofuturist
• cubo-futurist

Translations

adherent to the principles of futurism

• Finnish: futuristi (fi)
• French: futuriste (fr) m or f
• German: Futurist (de) m, Futuristin (de) f
• Greek: φουτουριστής (el) (foutouristís)
• Irish: todhchaíochaí m
• Italian: futurista (it)
• Polish: futurysta (pl) m, futurystka f
• Portuguese: futurista (pt) m or f, futurístico m, futurística f
• Russian: футури́ст (ru) m (futuríst), футури́стка (ru) f (futurístka)
• Spanish: futurista (es) m or f, futurístico m, futurística f

one who studies and predicts possible futures — see futurologist

Adjective

futurist (comparative more futurist, superlative most futurist)

1. In the style of futurism.

   Synonym: futuristic

   • 2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 126:

     Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.

Related terms

• futurism
• futuristic
• techno-futurist

Translations

advanced so far beyond that which is current as to appear to be from the future

• Belarusian: футурысты́чны (futurystýčny)
• Catalan: futurista
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未来派的

• Dutch: futuristisch (nl)
• Finnish: futuristinen (fi)
• French: futuriste (fr)
• Galician: futurista
• German: futuristisch (de)
• Greek: φουτουριστικά (el) (foutouristiká)
• Hebrew: עתידני (atidaní)
• Hungarian: futurisztikus (hu)
• Irish: todhchaíoch
• Italian: futuristico (it), futuribile
• Polish: futurystyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: futurista (pt), futurístico
• Russian: футуристи́ческий (ru) (futuristíčeskij), футури́стский (ru) (futurístskij)
• Spanish: futurista (es), futurístico
• Tatar: kiläçäktägeçä
• Turkish: fütürist (tr)
• Ukrainian: футуристи́чний (futurystýčnyj)

Further reading

• futurist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• futurism (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French futuriste or Italian futurista.

Noun

futurist m (plural futuriști)

1. futurist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	futurist	futuristul		futuriști	futuriștii
genitive-dative	futurist	futuristului		futuriști	futuriștilor
vocative	futuristule			futuriștilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• futùrista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

From fùtūr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /futǔrist/
• Hyphenation: fu‧tu‧rist

Noun

futùrist m (Cyrillic spelling футу̀рист)

1. futurist

Declension

Declension of futurist

	singular	plural
nominative	futurist	futuristi
genitive	futurista	futurista
dative	futuristu	futuristima
accusative	futurista	futuriste
vocative	futuriste	futuristi
locative	futuristu	futuristima
instrumental	futuristom	futuristima

References

• “futurist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024