Popularist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Popularist is an adjective meaning Reflecting popular taste and opinion.
Meaning
Reflecting popular taste and opinion.
More Meanings
- An artist or composer whose work appeals to popular tastes.
- One who adapts and popularizes a subject.
- On who advocates populism.
- One who explains social phenomena in terms of popular responses and habits.
Example Sentences
Three composers in the study are undoubted popularists.
The 'Love Boat' was popularist, light entertainment but the impact was significant (Schwichtenberg, 1984).
The rise of the popularist approach reshaped the shared assumptions and agreed procedure of learning during the 17th century.
There have been others, of course, antagonistic to established authority, whose philosophy has been anything but popularist, but it is not the popularist basis of Benn's antiauthoritarianism that is peculiar.
Word Forms
- popularists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include populist, right-on, antipop, populationist, old-line, reactionary.
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