naturalist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From natural + -ist. Piecewise doublet of naturalista.
Base: natural
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: naturalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more naturalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most naturalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A natural philosopher; a scientist.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: It has also been asserted, by some naturalists, that men do not attain their full growth and strength till thirty; but that women arrive at maturity by twenty.
gloss: A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
pos: noun
gloss: An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals.
pos: noun
examples: I will leave off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set about studying with such a rage, that when you come back next year, you may find the tongue I have now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist.
The beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it.
gloss: A creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of naturalistic.
pos: adj
examples: Trinity received “Birds of America” in 1900 as a gift from Dr. Gordon Russell, a physician and alumnus who was a collector of ornithological and naturalist art.
Its author – Henry Handel Richardson was the nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – had indeed read, and on occasion translated, these great European writers and they provided the naturalist style and intellectual inquiry resonant in all her fiction. […] The honesty and authorial detachment that is so remarkable in her work – she is one of the least obtrusive, least judgmental of all the great naturalist writers – seems to come from a distance, almost as though the particularly acute insight of the adult writer could only be seen through the filter of childhood experience.
The restaurant feels of-the-moment Los Angeles in its naturalist beauty (plants breathe life into the minimalist space) and its wide-open creativity, though much of Bost’s culinary background is steeped in grand French traditions.
Related words: naturalism
naturist
Derived words: antinaturalist
cabinet naturalist
field naturalist
nonnaturalist
religious naturalist
spiritual naturalist
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: естественик
roman: estestvenik
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自然學家 /自然学家
roman: zìránxuéjiā
lang: Danish
word: naturforsker
lang: Danish
word: naturforskerske
lang: Dutch
word: natuurvorser
lang: Dutch
word: natuurvorster
lang: Dutch
word: natuuronderzoeker
lang: Dutch
word: natuuronderzoekster
lang: Esperanto
word: naturalisto
lang: Finnish
word: luonnontieteilijä
lang: Galician
word: naturalista
lang: German
word: Naturforscher
lang: German
word: Naturforscherin
lang: Greek
word: φυσιοδίφης
roman: fysiodífis
lang: Hungarian
word: természettudós
lang: Hungarian
word: természetkutató
lang: Hungarian
word: természetbúvár
lang: Ido
word: naturalisto
lang: Kazakh
word: табиғат зерттеушісі
roman: tabiğat zertteuşısı
lang: Latin
word: nātūrālista
lang: Macedonian
word: природона́учник
roman: prirodonáučnik
lang: Macedonian
word: природња́к
roman: prirodnják
lang: Mongolian
word: байгальч
roman: bajgalʹč
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: naturforsker
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: naturforskerske
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: naturforskar
lang: Persian
word: طبیعیدان
roman: tabi'i-dân
lang: Portuguese
word: naturalista
lang: Russian
word: натурали́ст
roman: naturalíst
lang: Russian
word: натурали́стка
roman: naturalístka
lang: Spanish
word: naturalista
lang: Swedish
word: naturforskare
lang: Volapük
word: nativestigan
lang: Volapük
word: natihivestigan
lang: Volapük
word: natijivestigan