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say it: MIN-uh-muh-list
minimalist is a noun and adjective meaning "a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics". It is pronounced /ˈmɪnəməlɪst/ — MIN-uh-muh-list. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics
a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism
of or relating to artistic minimalism
advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics)
government · politics
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for minimalist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.