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puristisch

German, adjective/puˈʁɪstɪʃ/

puristisch is spelled P-U-R-I-S-T-I-S-C-H (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 123,622nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puristisch is a German adjective meaning “puristic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf den Purismus bezogen, nach Art des Purismus”.

What does puristisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    puristic

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. auf den Purismus bezogen, nach Art des Purismus

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of puristisch

  • puristischer masculine nominative singular
  • puristische feminine nominative singular
  • puristisches neuter nominative singular
  • puristischen genitive masculine singular
  • puristischem dative masculine singular
  • der puristische definite includes-article masculine
  • die puristische definite feminine includes-article
  • das puristische definite includes-article neuter
  • die puristischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des puristischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der puristischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem puristischen dative definite includes-article
  • den puristischen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce puristisch?

  • /puˈʁɪstɪʃ/
  • [puˈʁɪstɪʃ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to puristisch

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is puristisch in German?

puristisch appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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