Words that rhyme with naturalist

• abandonment 0
  n 1: the act of giving something up [syn: abandonment, forsaking, desertion] 2: withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless" [syn: desertion, abandonment, defection] 3: the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
• abstinent 0
  adj 1: self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious" [syn: abstinent, abstentious] n 1: a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages [syn: abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker] [ant: drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper]
• accident 0
  n 1: an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury 2: anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity" [syn: accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event]
• activist 0
  adj 1: advocating or engaged in activism [syn: activist, activistic] n 1: a militant reformer [syn: militant, activist]
• adamant 0
  adj 1: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent] n 1: very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond, adamant]
• adequate 0
  adj 1: having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"; "he was equal to the task" [syn: adequate, equal] [ant: inadequate, unequal] 2: sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough" [syn: adequate, decent, enough] 3: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable]
• adjutant 0
  n 1: an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer [syn: adjutant, aide, aide-de-camp] 2: large Indian stork with a military gait [syn: adjutant bird, adjutant, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius]
• advocate 0
  n 1: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent] 2: a lawyer who pleads cases in court [syn: advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader] v 1: push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: recommend, urge, advocate] 2: speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: preach, advocate]
• aerialist 0
  n 1: an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze)
• affricate 0
  n 1: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') [syn: affricate, affricate consonant, affricative]
• aggregate 0
  adj 1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass] 2: composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits" n 1: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] 2: material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster 3: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: aggregate, congeries, conglomeration] v 1: amount in the aggregate to 2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine]
• amulet 0
  n 1: a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease [syn: amulet, talisman]
• analyst 0
  n 1: someone who is skilled at analyzing data 2: an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions 3: a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis [syn: analyst, psychoanalyst]
• anatomist 0
  n 1: an expert in anatomy
• animate 0
  adj 1: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: inanimate] 2: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" [ant: inanimate, non-living, nonliving] 3: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate, insentient] v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 2: give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn: animize, animise, animate] 3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: blunt, deaden] 4: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
• animist 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism [syn: animist, animistic] n 1: one who accepts the doctrine of animism
• annulment 0
  n 1: the state of being cancelled or annulled [syn: revocation, annulment] 2: (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) [syn: annulment, invalidation] 3: the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation [syn: abrogation, repeal, annulment]
• antagonist 0
  n 1: someone who offers opposition [syn: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister] [ant: agonist] 2: a muscle that relaxes while another contracts; "when bending the elbow the triceps are the antagonist" 3: a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug [ant: synergist]
• aqueduct 0
  n 1: a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley
• battlefront 0
  n 1: the line along which opposing armies face each other [syn: battlefront, front, front line]
• battlement 0
  n 1: a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns [syn: battlement, crenelation, crenellation]
• bicyclist 0
  n 1: a person who rides a bicycle [syn: cyclist, bicyclist, bicycler, wheeler]
• bimetallist 0
  n 1: an advocate of bimetallism
• cabinet 0
  n 1: a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display 2: persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers 3: a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock [syn: cabinet, locker, storage locker] 4: housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television [syn: cabinet, console]
• catalyst 0
  n 1: (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected [syn: catalyst, accelerator] [ant: anticatalyst] 2: something that causes an important event to happen; "the invasion acted as a catalyst to unite the country"
• catapult 0
  n 1: a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones [syn: slingshot, sling, catapult] 2: a device that launches aircraft from a warship [syn: catapult, launcher] 3: an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket] v 1: shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult; "the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort" 2: hurl as if with a sling [syn: sling, catapult]
• classicist 0
  n 1: an artistic person who adheres to classicism [ant: romantic, romanticist] 2: a student of ancient Greek and Latin [syn: classicist, classical scholar]
• colonialist 0
  n 1: a believer in colonialism
• contaminant 0
  n 1: a substance that contaminates [syn: contaminant, contamination]
• cyclist 0
  n 1: a person who rides a bicycle [syn: cyclist, bicyclist, bicycler, wheeler]
• editorialist 0
  n 1: a journalist who writes editorials [syn: columnist, editorialist]
• entanglement 0
  n 1: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: web, entanglement]
• evangelist 0
  n 1: a preacher of the Christian gospel [syn: evangelist, revivalist, gospeler, gospeller] 2: (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
• extravagant 0
  adj 1: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn: excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening] 2: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift]
• federalist 0
  n 1: a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government 2: an advocate of federalism
• finalist 0
  n 1: a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition
• flatulent 0
  adj 1: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal 2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: colicky, flatulent, gassy]
• graduate 0
  adj 1: of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a), postgraduate] n 1: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad] 2: a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts v 1: receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990" 2: confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year" 3: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate, fine-tune]
• halibut 0
  n 1: lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific 2: marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes [syn: halibut, holibut]
• herbalist 0
  n 1: a therapist who heals by the use of herbs [syn: herbalist, herb doctor]
• idealist 0
  n 1: someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations [syn: idealist, dreamer]
• imperialist 0
  adj 1: of or relating to imperialism; "imperialistic wars" [syn: imperialistic, imperialist] n 1: a believer in imperialism
• inadequate 0
  adj 1: lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task" [syn: inadequate, unequal] [ant: adequate, equal] 2: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" [syn: inadequate, poor, short]
• inanimate 0
  adj 1: belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate" [ant: animate] 2: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects" [syn: inanimate, nonliving, non- living] [ant: animate] 3: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: breathless, inanimate, pulseless]
• industrialist 0
  n 1: someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise
• inhabitant 0
  n 1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller]
• intransigent 0
  adj 1: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
• journalist 0
  n 1: a writer for newspapers and magazines 2: someone who keeps a diary or journal [syn: diarist, diary keeper, journalist]
• laminate 0
  n 1: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers v 1: create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material 2: press or beat (metals) into thin sheets 3: cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material; "laminate the table" 4: split (wood) into thin sheets
• loyalist 0
  n 1: a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) [syn: loyalist, stalwart]
• management 0
  n 1: the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?" [syn: management, direction] 2: those in charge of running a business
• monopolist 0
  n 1: someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something [syn: monopolist, monopolizer, monopoliser]
• moralist 0
  n 1: a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems 2: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms [syn: martinet, disciplinarian, moralist]
• muralist 0
  n 1: a painter of murals
• nationalist 0
  adj 1: devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others; "nationalist aspirations"; "minor nationalistic differences" [syn: nationalist, nationalistic] n 1: one who loves and defends his or her country [syn: patriot, nationalist] 2: an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government
• natural 0
  adj 1: in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena" [ant: unnatural] 2: existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers" [ant: artificial, unreal] 3: existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation" [ant: supernatural] 4: functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild" 5: (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone; "a natural scale"; "B natural" [ant: flat, sharp] 6: unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" [syn: natural, instinctive] 7: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)] 8: related by blood; not adopted 9: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)] 10: free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" [syn: lifelike, natural] n 1: someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job" 2: a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: natural, cancel] 3: (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
• naturalism 0
  n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations 2: an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description [syn: naturalism, realism]
• nihilist 0
  n 1: someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief 2: an advocate of anarchism [syn: anarchist, nihilist, syndicalist]
• oculist 0
  n 1: a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses [syn: optometrist, oculist] 2: a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye [syn: ophthalmologist, eye doctor, oculist]
• passionate 0
  adj 1: having or expressing strong emotions [ant: passionless]
• philatelist 0
  n 1: a collector and student of postage stamps [syn: philatelist, stamp collector]
• populist 0
  n 1: an advocate of democratic principles [syn: democrat, populist]
• protagonist 0
  n 1: a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" [syn: supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend] 2: the principal character in a work of fiction [syn: protagonist, agonist]
• pugilist 0
  n 1: someone who fights with his fists for sport [syn: boxer, pugilist]
• racialist 0
  n 1: a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others [syn: racist, racialist]
• realist 0
  n 1: a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them 2: a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly 3: a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style
• recitalist 0
  n 1: a musician who gives recitals
• revivalist 0
  n 1: a preacher of the Christian gospel [syn: evangelist, revivalist, gospeler, gospeller]
• sacrament 0
  n 1: a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
• sensualist 0
  n 1: a person who enjoys sensuality
• socialist 0
  adj 1: advocating or following the socialist principles; "socialistic government" [syn: socialistic, socialist] [ant: capitalist, capitalistic] n 1: a political advocate of socialism
• somnambulist 0
  n 1: someone who walks about in their sleep [syn: sleepwalker, somnambulist, noctambulist]
• specialist 0
  n 1: an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning [syn: specialist, specializer, specialiser] [ant: Renaissance man, generalist] 2: practices one branch of medicine [syn: specialist, medical specialist]
• spiritualist 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or connected with spiritualism [syn: spiritualistic, spiritualist] n 1: someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [syn: medium, spiritualist, sensitive]
• surrealist 0
  n 1: an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism
• survivalist 0
  n 1: someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation
• unicyclist 0
  n 1: a person who rides a unicycle
• vocalist 0
  n 1: a person who sings [syn: singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser]
• panelist 0
  n 1: a member of a panel [syn: panelist, panellist]
• calvinist 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherents [syn: Calvinist, Calvinistic, Calvinistical] n 1: an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin [syn: Calvinist, Genevan]
• annalist 0
  n 1: a historian who writes annals
• duelist 0
  n 1: a person who fights duels [syn: dueler, dueller, duelist, duellist]
• nobelist 0
  n 1: winner of a Nobel prize [syn: Nobelist, Nobel Laureate]
• ablest 0
• amplest 0
• communalist 0
• feeblest 0
• feudalist 0
• gentlest 0
• humblest 0
• idlest 0
• medievalist 0
• mentalist 0
• simplest 0
• supplest 0

See also naturalist definition and naturalist synonyms