What does purist mean?
Purist means Of or pertaining to purism..
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/ˈpjʊəɹɪst/ · adjective
Of or pertaining to purism..
He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.
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.
Use purist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Purist means Of or pertaining to purism..
Common synonyms include puristic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.
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