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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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