futurist
English
Etymology
Noun
futurist (plural futurists)
- (art) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
- One who studies and predicts possible futures.
- Synonym: futurologist
- 2010, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!, Random House, →ISBN, page 237:
- Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by selling them a tiny device to link the two technologies together: a computer modem.
Translations
adherent to the principles of futurism
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one who studies and predicts possible futures — see futurologist
Adjective
futurist (comparative more futurist, superlative most futurist)
- In the style of futurism.
- Synonym: futuristic
- 2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press (→ISBN), page 126:
- Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.
Translations
advanced so far beyond that which is current as to appear to be from the future
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Further reading
- futurist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- futurism (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Bosnia, Serbia): futùrista
Etymology
From fùtūr.
Pronunciation
Noun
futùrist m (Cyrillic spelling футу̀рист)
Declension
Declension of futurist
singular | plural | |
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nominative | futurist | futuristi |
genitive | futurista | futurista |
dative | futuristu | futuristima |
accusative | futurista | futuriste |
vocative | futuriste | futuristi |
locative | futuristu | futuristima |
instrumental | futuristom | futuristima |
References
- “futurist” in Hrvatski jezični portal