expressionist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English expression

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English expressionist

From expression + -ist.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

expressionist (comparative more expressionist, superlative most expressionist)

1. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
   • 2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 May 2025:

     “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”

Derived terms

• antiexpressionist
• expressionistic

Translations

of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism

• Catalan: expressionista
• Danish: ekspressionistisk
• Dutch: expressionistisch (nl)
• Finnish: ekspressionistinen (fi)
• German: expressionistisch (de)
• Italian: espressionista
• Norman: expressionniste m or f (Jersey)
• Polish: ekspresjonistyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: expressionista (pt)
• Romanian: expresionist (ro)
• Spanish: expresionista (es)

Noun

expressionist (plural expressionists)

1. A painter who paints in this style.

Derived terms

• abstract expressionist
• neo-expressionist

Translations

painter who paints in this style

• Catalan: expressionista m or f
• Danish: ekspressionist c
• Finnish: ekspressionisti
• French: expressionniste (fr) m or f
• German: Expressionist (de) m, Expressionistin (de) f
• Italian: espressionista m or f
• Norman: expressionniste m or f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekspresjonist m

  Nynorsk: ekspresjonist m

• Polish: ekspresjonista m, ekspresjonistka f
• Portuguese: expressionista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: expresionist (ro) m
• Spanish: expresionista (es) m or f
• Swedish: expressionist (sv) n

Dutch

Etymology

From expressionisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛk.sprɛ.ʃoːˈnɪst/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ex‧pres‧si‧o‧nist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

expressionist m (plural expressionisten, no diminutive)

1. (art) expressionist (artist working in the expressionist style)