different between purest vs purist

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pj???st/, /?pj??st/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pj????st/, /?pj????st/

Adjective

purest

1. superlative form of pure: most pure
2. having the greatest purity

Related terms

• purer

Anagrams

• 'puters, erupts, purset, puters, uprest, upsert

English

Etymology

French puriste

Adjective

purist (comparative more purist, superlative most purist)

1. Of or pertaining to purism.

   Synonym: puristic

Translations

Noun

purist (plural purists)

1. An advocate of purism.
   • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (page 38)

     One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

Translations

Anagrams

• spruit, stir up, tripus, uprist, upstir

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French puriste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py?r?st/
• Hyphenation: pu?rist
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

purist m (plural puristen)

1. purist

Derived terms

• taalpurist
• puristisch

Related terms

• purisme

Descendants

• Afrikaans: puris

Romanian

Etymology

From French puriste

Noun

purist m (plural puri?ti)

1. purist

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnia, Serbia): pùrista

Etymology

From purìzam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rist/
• Hyphenation: pu?rist

Noun

pùrist m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. purist

Declension

References

• “purist” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal