imagist
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
imagist (plural imagists)
- (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 edit
imagist (comparative more imagist, superlative most imagist)
- 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 edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English imagist.
Adjective edit
imagist m or n (feminine singular imagistă, masculine plural imagiști, feminine and neuter plural imagiste)
Declension edit
Declension of imagist
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 edit
imagist m (plural imagiști)
Declension edit
Declension of imagist
singular | plural | |||
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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 |