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noun

Futurist n.

One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

(Theol.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Futurist" Quotes from Famous Books

... the "Twilight" and similar pictures nothing but a mindless confusion of strange performances. Others believe, incorrectly, that these kinds of "ideal" pictures are possible in painting (for example, the Futurist mish mash). ...

— The Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein

... all Futurist meanings Into one perfect cube, And broke itself up into facets Like a wreck ...

— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells

... writer is a prophet by use and wont. He is more interested in to-morrow than he is in to-day, and the past is just material for future guessing. "Think of the men who have walked here!" said a tourist in the Roman Coliseum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: "Think of the men who will." It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the man who will first release atomic energy for human use, will walk along the Via Sacra ...

— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells

... would be worth reading if only for the pleasure of meeting Hugo Swayne, the intellectual dilettante who, when he tried to enlist, was rejected as not sufficiently intelligent and then set to painting omnibuses in the Futurist mode, to render them invisible at a distance. A few weeks from now I shall take down The Lad With Wings from its shelf and read it all over again. It is that ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 • Various

... to be," said Radley, "is an intellectual rebel. When you go up to Oxford in a year or so, you'll pose as most painfully intellectual. You'll be a Socialist in Politics, a Futurist in Art, and a Modernist or Ultramontane in Religion—anything that's a rebellion against the established order. At all costs let us be original ...

— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

Words linked to "Futurist" : theologian, theologist, futuristic, visionary, theologiser, illusionist, fantast, seer