purist
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈpjʊrɪst/
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purista
- As a purist, he believes that traditional methods should always be followed.
- purist might call
- purist may say
Well, yeah, you could, but but if you're a purist, the answer's no.
- Well, yeah, you could, but but if you're a purist, the answer's no.
- He's awesome, is a true purist in this space.
- The purists, the Land Rover purists, It's not a diesel, it's not body on frame.
- The Bitcoin and blockchain purist would say if it doesn't have Nakamoto consensus, forget it.
- If you are a purist, you think of it as a as a as a way of recreating what nature does.
- You're going to have the purists who say I don't want the government involved, that that voice is getting quieter and smaller.
- It was some like boxing purist.
- You're not a a purist in as a pianist and things like that use all different types of sounds.
- But this going extreme purists on things in any in any movement is you're just scaring people a lot of the time.
- There are some people that fully purists of the minimum information principle, which is the idea that each flash card should test one and only one factoid.
Examples
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The purist critic argued that the film strayed too far from the original novel.
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But for my passion projects, I guess I'm a bit of a purist.
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In other words, I do not believe in the purist form of consultation in which the client is never seen.
Academic text (1991) -
How many of our recent studies rely on a purist definition of reading?
Academic text (2014) -
Yeah, I'm a bit of a purist.
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But they were lucky to have such purists still on board here.
Fiction book (1994) -
He's sort of a purist.
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He's awesome, is a true purist in this space.
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Conservatives of various kinds lose by being philosophical purists, and Democrats win by party solidarity.
Blog text (12) -
You're going to have the purists who say I don't want the government involved, that that voice is getting quieter and smaller.
Synonyms
35
4.5
A person who wants everything perfect and dislikes small mistakes
21
7.9
A person who always wants things done exactly and carefully
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8.1
A person who takes words only in their exact meaning and ignores other meanings
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8.6
A person who cares too much about small rules and corrects others often
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8.7
A person who supports strict rules about language and grammar
A person who pays close attention to small details and exact measurements
A person who often corrects other people's grammar in a strict way
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Etymology
Purist comes from the word pure, which means 'not mixed' or 'clean', and the ending -ist that names a person. So a purist is someone who wants things kept 'pure' and exact, which is why they insist on strict rules about language, style, or practice.