Crossword clues for minimalist
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1907; see minimal + -ist. Originally an Englishing of Menshevik (q.v.); in sense of "practitioner of minimal art" it is first recorded 1967; the term minimal art is from 1965. As an adjective from 1917 in the Russian political sense; 1969 in reference to art. Related: Minimalistic; Minimalism.
Wiktionary
a. Believing in or seeking a minimal state; seeking to minimize or reduce to a minimum. n. One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to artistic minimalism
advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics)
n. a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics
a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism
Usage examples of "minimalist".
Paul Burgess was the greatest minimalist artist of the twentieth century.
His best films, Alien and Bladerunner, rely on claustrophobic environments for their wonderfully achieved atmospheres and have tight, almost minimalist plots.
But then I looked at Jocasta, who was getting the same minimalist treatment from Hawk.
Because that was the thing about minimalism, it was demanding, it asked a lot of you, everything that was in the minimalist room was balanced on a hair trigger of harmony, every object was precisely where it was supposed to be and the slightest thing out of place threw the whole delicate equilibrium into utter chaos.
As it poured down his gullet he felt it scouring him, reducing the untidy tangle of his insides to a minimalist shell.
Edwin ended up wandering from one dark level to another like a character in a minimalist play.
There were two connecting rooms, both decorated in a minimalist high-tech style, with shining chrome furniture, angular sculptures, and non-representational paintings and holograms.
Minimalist novels were popular on springwater bottles, while the maximalists occupied extra-thick, extra-rich comestibles.
Fitz was looking out at the deserted Medicean Stadium from its massive, minimalist stage.
Pioneers, voortrekkers, yeah, they do your minimalist, economical sort of thing.
The décor was French minimalist: sleek bookshelves and lacquered Roche Bobois credenzas done in neutral tones.
The goal of our environmental alterations should therefore be minimalist and ecopoetic, reflecting the values of the areophany.
It was one of those expensive postmodern ferroconcrete structures, angular, minimalist, higher than it was wide, with windows inset like those of a medieval castle, and a heavy iron gate fronting a tiny courtyard dominated by a slender cryptomeria tree, a bonsaied dwarf juniper.
A haze light enough to drift on Amethi's minimalist breezes, little more than a draft of perfume, yet eradicating the necessity of insects.
Like the other rooms, it was filled with artwork by minimalists whose names - Flavin and LeWitt - meant nothing to Wolf.