purist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste, equivalent to pure +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹɪst/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪst/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊɹ.ɪst/, /ˈpjɝ.ɪst/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪst, -ɔːɹɪst, -ɜːɹɪst
• Hyphenation: pur‧ist

Adjective

purist (comparative more purist, superlative most purist)

1. Of or pertaining to purism.

   Synonym: puristic

   • 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:

     He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.

Derived terms

• purist Greek

Translations

pertaining to purism

• Armenian: մաքրամոլական (hy) (makʻramolakan)
• Catalan: purista
• Czech: puristický
• Dutch: puristisch (nl)
• Finnish: puhdasoppinen (fi), puristinen
• French: puriste (fr)
• Galician: purista
• German: puristisch (de)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: puristisk
• Polish: purystyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: purista (pt)
• Russian: пури́стский (ru) (purístskij)
• Spanish: purista (es)
• Swedish: puristisk (sv)

Noun

purist (plural purists)

1. An advocate of purism.
   • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:

     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.

Translations

advocate of purism

• Armenian: մաքրամոլ (hy) (makʻramol)
• Catalan: purista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 純粹主義者 / 纯粹主义者 (chúncuìzhǔyìzhě)

• Czech: purista m
• Dutch: purist (nl) m
• Finnish: puhdasoppinen (fi), puristi (fi)
• French: puriste (fr) m or f
• Galician: purista m or f
• German: Purist (de) m, Puristin (de) f
• Hebrew: טַהֲרָן (he) m (taharán)
• Italian: purista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 純粋主義者 (じゅんすいしゅぎしゃ)
• Kazakh: пурист (purist)
• Korean: 순수주의자(純粹主義者) (sunsujuuija)
• Polish: purysta (pl) m
• Portuguese: purista (pt) m or f
• Russian: пури́ст (ru) m (puríst), пури́стка (ru) f (purístka)
• Spanish: purista (es) m or f
• Swedish: purist (sv) c, renhetsivrare c

Anagrams

• spruit, stir up, tripus, uprist, upstir

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste.

Noun

purist c (singular definite puristen, plural indefinite purister)

1. purist

Declension

Declension of purist

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	purist	puristen	purister	puristerne
genitive	purists	puristens	puristers	puristernes

See also

• purisme
• puristisk

References

• “purist” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyˈrɪst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pu‧rist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

purist m (plural puristen)

1. purist

Derived terms

• taalpurist
• puristisch

Related terms

• purisme

Descendants

• Afrikaans: puris

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

purist m (plural puriști)

1. purist

Declension

Declension of purist

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	purist	puristul		puriști	puriștii
genitive-dative	purist	puristului		puriști	puriștilor
vocative	puristule			puriștilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• pùrista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

From purìzam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǔrist/
• Hyphenation: pu‧rist

Noun

pùrist m (Cyrillic spelling пу̀рист)

1. purist

Declension

Declension of purist

	singular	plural
nominative	purist	puristi
genitive	purista	purista
dative	puristu	puristima
accusative	purista	puriste
vocative	puriste	puristi
locative	puristu	puristima
instrumental	puristom	puristima

References

• “purist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025