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Futurist

noun

A theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future.

Someone who predicts the future. Synonym: fantast.

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"Futurist" Quotes from Famous Books

... some wrinkles in color blends at the Futurist Exhibition," he said. "But here's Johnston to tell us the ...

— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

... in position. Having repeated the process with the remainder, he glows with a sense of duty done, and bursts into his farewell song; I often wish that it was his swan-song. He produces in this vocal valediction noises which to the ears of a Futurist composer might seem as Olympian music, but which to my insufficiently ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 • Various

... their artistic merits, they are artistic. Take those same "contented cows." What could be more futurist than the coal black sky under which they so contentedly graze? Or the henna hills so far away, or the purple grass they chew. Matisse and Picasso, great modernists, ...

— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

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