单词 | futurist |
释义 | futuristn.adj. 1. Theology. a. One who believes that the Scripture prophecies, esp. those in the Book of Revelation, are still to be fulfilled in the future. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse > believing in future futurist1842 1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. I. iv. 88 Dr. Todd and Mr. Mac-Causland..are alike staunch Antiprotestant Futurists. 1854 D. S. Desprez Apocal. Fulfilled i. 2 We have Præterists and Futurists—one class of interpreters believing that the Apocalypse was fulfilled in the first three or four centuries of the Christian æra; another class maintaining that, with the exception of the three first chapters, none of it is fulfilled. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 227. b. attributive passing into adj. ΚΠ 1878 H. G. Guinness Approaching End of Age (1880) 5 The futurist school of prophetic interpreters. 1881 Church Times 25 Feb. 121 To give themselves up..to idle futurist speculations. 2. One who has regard to or studies the future; a believer in human progress. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > one who has regard to the future forelookera1382 futurist1846 1846 in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. 1936 G. K. Chesterton Autobiogr. 25 The one thing forbidden to such futurists was Looking Backwards. 1956 A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. vi. 79 The futurists are revolutionaries who consciously and deliberately set out to break with a disintegrating social past in order to create a new society. 1964 E. M. Forster in Granta 15 Feb. 9/1 Traction Engine: I shall pass often enough in the future. Punt: A Futurist! Better and better. 1971 Observer 10 Jan. 21/7 A man whose name had often been mentioned respectfully by other futurists. 3. [After Italian futuristo, French futuriste.] An adherent of futurism. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period mannerist1695 romanticist1821 trecentist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 expressionist1850 classicalist1851 Gothicist1861 literalist1862 realist1868 modernist1879 verist1884 classic1885 symbolist1888 decadent1890 veritist1894 neoclassicist1899 neo-romantic1899 renaissancer1899 social realist1909 avant-garde1910 futurist1911 pasticheur1912 Bloomsbury1917 postmodern1917 pre-Romantic1918 Dadaist1919 German expressionist1920 super-realist1925 surrealist1925 New Romantic1930 brutalist1934 socialist-realist1935 avant-gardist1940 New Negro1953 neo-modernist1958 bricoleur1965 popster1965 sound artist1966 performance artist1975 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories > adherent of modernist1703 symbolist1812 romanticist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 symbolizer1854 archaist1867 realist1868 verist1884 naturalist1888 naturist1892 Teutonist1894 veritist1894 literary theorist1896 neoclassicist1899 social realist1909 futurist1911 postmodernist1914 vorticist1914 postmodern1917 Scythian1923 surrealist1925 populist1930 ultraist1931 socialist-realist1935 lettrist1946 New Negro1953 formalist1955 pre-modernist1962 Scyth1972 dirty realist1987 po-mo1996 1911 W. J. Locke Glory of Clementina Wing xxii. 278 After that they had gone to see the New Futurists. 1914 Star 16 Dec. 6/2 Small bullet-proof shields,..painted in cubist patterns in futurist colours. 1915 W. H. Wright Mod. Painting 272 The famous Futurist statement that ‘a running horse has not four legs, but twenty’. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 128 Erratic daubs of bright colours laid on after the most approved Futurist style. 1924 C. Hamilton Prisoners of Hope 129 The walls..were covered with the raw and confused handiwork of the people who called themselves futurists because they had never been taught how to paint. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 58/1 Trotsky writes superbly on the literary ‘fellow-travellers’, Alexander Blok, and the Futurists in particular. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1842 |
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