imagist

English

Alternative forms

• Imagist

Etymology

image +‎ -ist

Noun

imagist (plural imagists)

1. (art) A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism
   • 1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Most critics group Lanyon with the Chicago imagists, artists who use ordinary objects and meticulous detail to explore fantasy.

   • 1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162:

     D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.

Adjective

imagist (comparative more imagist, superlative most imagist)

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to imagism.
   • 1996, William Pratt, Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry, page 162:

     D. H. Lawrence would have been a poet of distinction without an imagist movement, but he became a modern poet, and a major one, by becoming an imagist, and in time he attained greater distinction than any of the other English poets who helped found the imagist movement.

   • 2008, Winston Fletcher, Powers of Persuasion:

     Their advertisements rely wholly on memory, which is why they can be (indeed must be) less detailed, more imagist, more distinctive—more memorable.

   • 2016, Mark Sandy, Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century, page 48:

     Altieri argues that 'Williams still locates affect in the rendering of a scene', which seems true of Williams's shorter, more imagist poems.

See also

• Imagism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English imagist.

Adjective

imagist m or n (feminine singular imagistă, masculine plural imagiști, feminine and neuter plural imagiste)

1. imagist

Declension

Declension of imagist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	imagist		imagistă	imagiști	imagiste
	definite	imagistul		imagista	imagiștii	imagistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	imagist		imagiste	imagiști	imagiste
	definite	imagistului		imagistei	imagiștilor	imagistelor

Noun

imagist m (plural imagiști)

1. imagist

Declension

Declension of imagist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) imagist	imagistul	(niște) imagiști	imagiștii
genitive/dative	(unui) imagist	imagistului	(unor) imagiști	imagiștilor
vocative	imagistule		imagiștilor