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futurist

noun

Etymology

From future + -ist.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻
  2. derived from futūrus
  3. derived from futur
  4. inherited from future
  5. suffixed as futurist — “future + ist”

Definitions

  1. An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

    • 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.
    • ‘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.

  3. In the style of futurism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA