Antonyms for classicist
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : klas-uh-sist |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈklæs ə sɪst |
Definition of classicist
- As in archaeologist : noun student of the physical remains of ancient cultures or eras
- As in stylist : noun one who writes with style
- As in right-winger : noun conservative
- As in rightist : noun conservative
- As in traditionalist : noun conservative
- As in conservative : noun person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change
- She eschewed the Classicist writers as though they had never existed.
- Extract from : « Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan » by Toru Dutt
- He was a classicist who caught the new vision and sought to compromise.
- Extract from : « A History of American Literature Since 1870 » by Fred Lewis Pattee
- If you become an engineer, you will not condemn the classicist as useless.
- Extract from : « Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College » by Charles Franklin Thwing
- Stendhal has written that a classicist is a dead romanticist.
- Extract from : « Ivory Apes and Peacocks » by James Huneker
- Let the classicist determine which interpretation is the right one.
- Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 » by Various
- Yes, decidedly, he was no classicist in music; he was a thoroughgoing transcendentalist.
- Extract from : « Crome Yellow » by Aldous Huxley
- But though he was thus essentially a classicist, a mere classicist he was not.
- Extract from : « Matthew Arnold » by G. W. E. Russell
- There the Classicist was the artistic aristocrat because the Calvinist was the spiritual aristocrat.
- Extract from : « The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920 » by Various
- In the two operations which the human mind performs, the classicist is more successful in the second than in the first.
- Extract from : « The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) » by Hippolyte A. Taine
- The chief poets of this classicist group were S de Miranda and Ferreira.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Nations: Portugal » by H. Morse Stephens
Synonyms for classicist
- archaeologian
- bitter-ender
- classicist
- conserver
- conventionalist
- diehard
- excavator
- hard hat
- impressionist
- middle-of-the-roader
- moderate
- moderatist
- obstructionist
- old guard
- old liner
- orthodox
- paleologist
- paleontologist
- prehistorian
- preserver
- reactionary
- redneck
- right
- right-winger
- rightist
- romanticist
- silk-stocking
- standpat
- stick-in-the-mud
- Tory
- traditionalist
- unprogressive
- writer
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