Purist is an English word with synonyms like pedant or bookworm. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Purist meaning
Of or pertaining to purism.
Synonyms of Purist
Using Purist
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to purism.
- Useful related words include: pedant, bookworm, scholastic.
- In the example corpus, purist often appears in combinations such as: the purist, of purist, purist when.
Context around Purist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Purist
- In this selection, "purist" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jazz, porsche, few, car, nonsense and bankers stand out and add context to how "purist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a few purist bankers who and a jazz purist he toured. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "purist" sits close to words such as abadi, abdelaziz and absolutist, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with purist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I’m not a purist by any means. (8 words)
Naturopath Emily Bathgate, founder of The Purist Collection. (8 words)
Never a jazz purist, he toured with Bowie and Wonder, too. (11 words)
I’m no trail-purist and have jumped city stretches before, but I knew I couldn’t miss out an entire island just because it seemed to get me nowhere, so I was going to do it. (37 words)
Upon his return to Zakynthos, Solomos tried his hand at writing poems in Greek for the first time and controversially at the time attempted these poems in Demotic Greek rather than the “purist” Katharevousa language. (35 words)
He's not some dour technocrat or solemn musical purist, though, and he revealed sarcastic wit underneath all that crushing volume when he titled one of his recordings, The Evan Dando of Noise? (33 words)
He's not some dour technocrat or solemn musical purist, though, and he revealed sarcastic wit underneath all that crushing volume when he titled one of his recordings, The Evan Dando of Noise? (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
MMA has generally taken a purist's stance on the concept of a belt, namely that it denotes the best fighter in the weight class.
The “House of Gucci” director Ridley Scott is hardly a purist when it comes to accents.
Never a jazz purist, he toured with Bowie and Wonder, too.
The win against Rotherham yesterday wasn’t pretty, and Valerien Ismael admitted he wasn’t expecting the game to be a feast for the purist.
As a long time Porsche fan, and owner of numerous 911's, I know that the Panamera is considered by many, not to be a Porsche purist car.
Her purist nonsense fit right in with her former husband – and current problem – Foustus Blackwood (Richard Coyle).
However, this has not gone well with a few purist bankers, who in private felt that the RBI should not be batting only for private sector banks.
I had this purist biologist belief that you gotta save the land and restore it to what it was and keep people out of it so they don’t mess it up.
I’m no trail-purist and have jumped city stretches before, but I knew I couldn’t miss out an entire island just because it seemed to get me nowhere, so I was going to do it.
Sardar Surjit Singh says Swarn Kaur was a purist in terms of recipes and cooking methods.
Stephen Hendry, something of a purist when it comes to things like this, is not a fan of the event, but recognises what it can do for lower-ranked players.
Even the rugby purist might have been tempted to reach for the television remote, as the first half was more rugby pinball than anything else.
He's not some dour technocrat or solemn musical purist, though, and he revealed sarcastic wit underneath all that crushing volume when he titled one of his recordings, The Evan Dando of Noise?
I’m not a purist by any means.
Maybe you don’t want anything fancy in your margarita, maybe you’re a purist and you want to drink your margarita as it was intended.
Naturopath Emily Bathgate, founder of The Purist Collection.
When someone made an exhibit from just Lego, avoiding building aids such as Blu Tack, they were called a "purist''.
Another purist noted that Cracco, a former judge in the Italian Masterchef, recently lost a Michelin star at one of his restaurants.
The purist of punks with the original spit-soaked mindset — don't settle into the mainstream, question it.
Upon his return to Zakynthos, Solomos tried his hand at writing poems in Greek for the first time and controversially at the time attempted these poems in Demotic Greek rather than the “purist” Katharevousa language.
Common combinations with purist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the purist 5×
- of purist 3×
- purist when 2×
- this purist 2×
- purist of 2×
- on purist 2×
- purist theory 2×
- more purist 2×