Formalist is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORMALIST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person having exaggerated regard to rules or established usages
• a person who adheres excessively to prescribed forms
• a follower or advocate of the basing of ethics on the form of the moral law without regard to intention or consequences.
• an artist who is excessively concerned with form, technique, or symbolism rather than content
• an advocate of the treatment of mathematics as a manipulation of meaningless symbols.
• One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to or supporting principles of formalism
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to prescribed or external forms (as in religion or art); an instance of this

Words related to FORMALIST

formalism16

Words that contain FORMALIST

formalists15 formalistic18 antiformalist18 antiformalists19 formalistically25

How to use FORMALIST in a sentence

• He is no formalist, not he! All is crude and chaotic, self-opinionated, vain.
• Ignatius is still the same anti-evangelical formalist, the same puerile boaster, the same dreaming mystic, and the same crazy fanatic.

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