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🎨 Simple and clean 🧘 A simple-living person 🗳️ Favoring small changes 🗳️ A cautious reformer
minimalist

minimalist

2 6.3
Favoring only small political changes
  • adjective
  • /ˈmɪnɪməlɪst/
translation icon : minimalista
  • The committee proposed a minimalist approach to reforming local government processes.
  • a minimalist democracy
  • a minimalist state
  • a minimalist formulation

So if will your question is about could there be a a minimalist president?

Examples

  • After the military coup in 1973, many social policies were discontinued as a minimalist perspective on the provision of social services was adopted.

    Academic text (1999)

  • During the meeting, they discussed a minimalist strategy to reduce bureaucratic red tape.

  • The best we can hope for, it seems, is a worldwide consensus on a minimalist conception of human rights.

    Blog text (8)

  • I enjoy your minimalist ideas, but I don't think they are realistic.

    Blog text (18)

  • Once the Canadian government pledged to reduce emissions by 6 percent by 2012, Chretien adopted a minimalist approach to ratification and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.

    Academic text (2005)

  • His minimalist suggestions for improving the education system focused on essential changes rather than extensive overhauls.

Synonyms

antistatist
vsminimalist
  • UK
8.9

A person who opposes strong government control and wants less government power

favors only minimal reforms in government instead of rejecting state control

Antonyms

maximalist
1 7.4

Having many bold, large elements in art and design

How Radical

radical
462 6.0
revolutionary
143 4.9
reformist
12 6.5
minimalist
2 6.3
cautious
210 2.9
conservative
∞ 4.6

Surface Forms

minimalist positive

Morphology

minimalist = minimal (semi-transparent) = minimal + ist

Formally 'minimal' + '-ist' is transparent, but the political/policy sense ('favoring only minimal reforms') is a specialized usage and may be less obvious to some learners.

Etymology

Minimalist comes from minimal (from the old Latin minimus, 'smallest') and the ending -ist which shows a position or approach. So a minimalist approach in politics or planning favors only the smallest, most limited changes.