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PURIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purist mean?
• PURIST (noun)
The noun PURIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Familiarity information: PURIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("purist" is a kind of...):
bookworm; pedant; scholastic (a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit)
Derivation:
purism (scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language))
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