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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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Etymology of 'Futurist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Futurist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Futurist painters, says a contemporary, are becoming scarce in America. The wave of crime that followed the War seems ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920 • Various

... We move on because we are not allowed to move back. But the really ragged prophets, the real revolutionists who held high language in the palaces of kings, they did not confine themselves to saying, "Onward, Christian soldiers," still less, "Onward, Futurist soldiers"; what they said to high emperors and to whole empires was, "Turn ye, turn ...

— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton

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