futurist

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See also: Futurist and fütürist

English

Etymology

From future +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

futurist (plural futurists)

  1. (art) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
    • 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:
      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.
    • 2005, Alan Bartram, Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 20:
      ‘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.
    Synonym: futurologist
    • 2010, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!, Random House, →ISBN, page 237:
      Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by selling them a tiny device to link the two technologies together: a computer modem.

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Adjective

futurist (comparative more futurist, superlative most futurist)

  1. In the style of futurism.
    Synonym: futuristic
    • 2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 126:
      Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French futuriste or Italian futurista.

Noun

futurist m (plural futuriști)

  1. futurist

Declension

singular plural
+ indefinite article + definite article + indefinite article + definite article
nominative/accusative (un) futurist futuristul (niște) futuriști futuriștii
genitive/dative (unui) futurist futuristului (unor) futuriști futuriștilor
vocative futuristule futuriștilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fùtūr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /futǔrist/
  • Hyphenation: fu‧tu‧rist

Noun

futùrist m (Cyrillic spelling футу̀рист)

  1. futurist

Declension

Declension of futurist
singular plural
nominative futurist futuristi
genitive futurista futurista
dative futuristu futuristima
accusative futurista futuriste
vocative futuriste futuristi
locative futuristu futuristima
instrumental futuristom futuristima

References

  • “futurist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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