The meaning of Purist

Purist – definition

noun
A person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style.
Usage examples:
The production has yet to offend gilbert and sullivan purists
Synonims:
Pedant Precisionist Perfectionist Formalist Literalist Stickler Traditionalist Doctrinaire Quibbler Hair-splitter Dogmatist Casuist Sophist Fault-finder Caviller Carper Pettifogger Nitpicker
noun
An adherent of purism.
Usage examples:
Purist painters

noun
A person who believes that it is important to speak, write, or do things in a correct or traditional way
Usage examples:
Some purists complain that the buildings are not being accurately restored.

Purist translation into English

Purist: translate from English into Chinese

纯粹主义者

Purist: translate from English into Dutch

Puristisch, Taalzuiveraar

Purist: translate from English into French

Puriste

Purist: translate from English into German

Purist

Purist: translate from English into Hindi

शुद्धतावादी, अधिक शुद्धाचार भक्त

Purist: translate from English into Italian

Purista

Purist: translate from English into Korean

순수주의자, 순정주의자

Purist: translate from English into Russian

Пурист

Purist: translate from English into Spanish

Purista, Hablista

Word origin

early 18th century: from French puriste, from pur ‘pure’.

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Purist – similar words

purists

noun
A person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style.
Usage examples:
The production has yet to offend gilbert and sullivan purists

noun
A person who believes that it is important to speak, write, or do things in a correct or traditional way
Usage examples:
Some purists complain that the buildings are not being accurately restored.

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puristically

adverb
In a way that involves following very traditional rules or ideas about a subject
Usage examples:
I decided the performance had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in t…

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puristical

adjective
Puristic.

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puristic

noun
A person who believes that it is important to speak, write, or do things in a correct or traditional way
Usage examples:
Some purists complain that the buildings are not being accurately restored.

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Purist synonims

casuist

noun
A person who uses clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; a sophist.
Usage examples:
My impression of him as a witness was that he was an inveterate casuist to say the least, and at ti…

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doctrinaire

adjective
Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations.
Usage examples:
The administration's doctrinaire economic policy

noun
A doctrinaire person.
Usage examples:
His biographer has rightly called him a ‘southern nationalist’ and the ‘last of the doctrinaires of…

adjective
Based on and following fixed beliefs rather than considering practical problems
Usage examples:
He has a somewhat doctrinaire approach to running the company.

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dogmatist

noun
A person who believes too strongly that their personal opinions or beliefs are correct

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formalist

noun
A person who adheres excessively to prescribed forms.
Usage examples:
To the strict formalist, the law is the law

adjective
Relating to or supporting principles of formalism.
Usage examples:
Formalist arguments

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nitpicker

noun
Someone who finds faults in details that are not important
Usage examples:
Some people may say i'm being a nitpicker., the nitpicker in me had to mention that the flat wasn't…

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pedant

noun
A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
Usage examples:
The royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace)

noun
A person who is too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important

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perfectionist

noun
A person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection.
Usage examples:
He was a perfectionist who worked slowly

adjective
Refusing to accept any standard short of perfection.
Usage examples:
With the help of his friends, he turns to rita harrison, a corporate workaholic perfectionist lawyer.

noun
A person who wants very much to get every detail exactly right
Usage examples:
As a film director, alfred hitchcock had the reputation of a perfectionist.

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pettifogger

ˈpɛtɪfɒɡə

noun
An inferior legal practitioner, especially one who deals with petty cases or employs dubious practices.
Usage examples:
While the law asserts otherwise, truth's activism demonstrates the capacity of disfranchised americ…

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sophist

noun
A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in greece in the classical and hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.
Usage examples:
His mistress aspasia and the sophist anaxagoras were perhaps prosecuted.

noun
A person who uses sophistry (= clever but untrue arguments) in order to deceive people
Usage examples:
It was basically a selfish act, though no doubt a sophist would argue that it was done for the gene…

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stickler

noun
A person who insists on a certain quality or type of behaviour.
Usage examples:
He's a stickler for accuracy

noun
Someone who believes in closely following rules or in maintaining a high standard of behavior
Usage examples:
He was a stickler when it came to office manners.

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traditionalist

noun
An advocate of maintaining tradition, especially so as to resist change.
Usage examples:
Traditionalists feared that the character of the building might be lost

adjective
Advocating the upholding or maintenance of tradition.
Usage examples:
A latin prayer used by traditionalist catholics

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