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Meaning of "gradualist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRADUALIST

gradualist  [ˈɡrædjʊəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRADUALIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gradualist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GRADUALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gradualism

Gradualism, from Latin gradus, is the belief in or the policy of change by gradual, often slow stages.

Definition of gradualist in the English dictionary

The definition of gradualist in the dictionary is seeking to change something or achieve a goal gradually rather than quickly or violently, esp in politics.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRADUALIST


actualist
ˈæktʃʊəlɪst
analyst
ˈænəlɪst
conceptualist
kənˈseptʃʊəlɪst
dualist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
duellist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
factualist
ˈfæktʃʊəlɪst
homosexualist
ˌhɒməˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
individualist
ˌɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəlɪst
intellectualist
ˌɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəlɪst
mutualist
ˈmjuːtʃʊəlɪst
pansexualist
pænˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
perpetualist
pəˈpetʃʊəlɪst
punctualist
ˈpʌŋktʃʊəlɪst
sensualist
ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst
sexualist
ˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
specialist
ˈspɛʃəlɪst
spiritualist
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəlɪst
textualist
ˈtɛkstʃʊəlɪst
virtualist
ˈvɜːtʃʊəlɪst
visualist
ˈvɪzjʊəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRADUALIST

gradiometer
gradual
gradualism
gradualistic
graduality
gradually
gradualness
graduand
graduate
graduate school
graduate student
graduated
graduated pension
graduated pension scheme
graduateship
graduation
graduation ceremony
graduation day
graduator
gradus

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRADUALIST

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brutalist
capitalist
centralist
finalist
fundamentalist
generalist
hospitalist
idealist
mentalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
Orientalist
photojournalist
realist
removalist
sensationalist
serialist
socialist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of gradualist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gradualist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRADUALIST

Find out the translation of gradualist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gradualist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gradualist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

渐进
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gradualista
570 millions of speakers

English

gradualist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्रमिकतावादी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التدريجي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

градуалистическим
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gradualista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gradualism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gradualiste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Beransur-ansur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gradualistische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

漸進主義者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

점진적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gradualisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiệm tiến
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தீவிரமான முறையில் அன்றி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रमबद्धता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tedricilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gradualista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

graduali-
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

градуалистической
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gradualist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

gradualist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gradualist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gradualistisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gradvis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gradualist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRADUALIST»

The term «gradualist» is normally little used and occupies the 126.414 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRADUALIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gradualist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRADUALIST»

Discover the use of gradualist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gradualist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rights, Duties and the Body: Law and Ethics of the ...
E. A Gradualist Approach 1. A “Claim” “Potential possession of . . . [descriptive personhood] . . . confers not a right, but only a claim, to life, but that claim keeps growing stronger, requiring ever stronger reasons to override it, until the point when ...
Rosamund Scott, 2002
2
International Economic Policy Coordination
1) Fiscal competition between Europe and America. So far we have assumed that the governments follow a cold-turkey strategy. Now we assume that the governments follow a gradualist strategy. Besides we assume imperfect capital mobility ...
Michael Carlberg, 2005
3
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and ...
Many sincere advocates of the gradualist approach rooted their ideology in the belief that society could not easily adapt to the sweeping social, political, and economic consequences that would result from the immediate emancipation of the ...
Junius P. Rodriguez, 2007
4
The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics
The gradualist approach holds that the newly conceived embryo has no moral value (or extremely little) but this value increases throughout the course of pregnancy and fetal development. The way of accounting for the value of the fetus is ...
Christopher Kaczor, 2005
5
Stem Cells: New Frontiers in Science & Ethics
4.1.2 The Gradualist View of Moral Status The gradualist approach to moral status recognises the continuity of development in the human organism that eventually gives rise to an adult — one that would typically possess the sort of complex ...
Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan, John Harris, 2012
6
Alternative Political Economy Models of Transition
5 The Cost of Transition Using the cost criteria of the transition process identified in Chapter 3, it can be argued the implementation of the neoclassical gradualist approach in transition economies resulted in the lowest economic cost (as the ...
Marangos
7
Monetary and Wage Policies in the Euro Area
Chapter. 2. Simultaneous. Decisions: Gradualist. Policies. This chapter is concerned with competition between the European central bank, the American central bank, the German labour union, and the French labour union. So far we have ...
Michael Carlberg, 2006
8
Industrial Relations in the New Europe: Enlargement, ...
Of the two approaches to a transition strategy, the orthodox 'big bang approach' and the gradualist approach, Slovenia chose the latter; although there are many arguments in favour of both approaches, as outlined by Rojec, Sustersic, Vasle, ...
Peter Leisink, Abraham Jan Steijn, Ulke Veersma, 2007
9
Life in the Balance: Exploring the Abortion Controversy
Nevertheless, in theory proponents of the gradualist position are committed to saying that taking the life of a young child in whom personhood is beginning to emerge is more serious than taking the life of an infant in whom personhood has not ...
Robert N. Wennberg, 1985
10
Stem Cells, Human Embryos and Ethics: Interdisciplinary ...
The gradualist view may in the outset seem incompatible with the metaphysical view that we as human beings are created in the image of God. This creation, some might claim, can not be the outcome of a gradual process: an entity is either  ...
Lars Østnor, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRADUALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gradualist is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Will Atticus Finch still be a hero in the new sequel to 'Mockingbird'?
The Atticus of the sequel could be a gradualist on race matters, while Scout is more radical, Flynt said. He might even express support for ... «Anniston Star, Jul 15»
2
Ranil Wickremesinghe' s Political Conduct Compelled Maithripala …
Instead of building consensus and adopting a cautious gradualist approach, as any sensible Conservative would and as befits a minority ... «Lankaweb, Jul 15»
3
Students Urge JEB Stuart HS Name Change
... who was then the Superintendent of FCPS and favored, at best, a “gradualist” approach to school desegregation in which the schools would ... «Falls Church News Press, Jul 15»
4
Automated advances "pebble in the pond": ZF TRW
The sensible approach is more gradualist, to define these new scenarios." "Think about society benefits, mobility for older people [for example]. «just-auto.com, Jul 15»
5
Barack Obama hails 'historic decision' to normalise diplomatic …
In practice, however, analysts say Cuba's still-authoritarian Communist regime will take a gradualist approach to any reform and opening up, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Welcome to Vancouver's long, messy rebuild
If the moves were underwhelming individually, on the whole, you can see why the Canucks feel that their gradualist approach to rebuilding took ... «Sportsnet.ca, Jul 15»
7
Three Outcomes From King v. Burwell
For the faction that demands dramatic change, the gradualist approach favored by Republican leaders who yearn for the status quo politics of ... «The Heartland Institute, Jun 15»
8
Investors tune out US Federal Reserve's warnings at their peril
... where the futures market predicts a much slower pace of Fed tightening even after the Fed had already lowered its own gradualist forecasts ... «The National, Jun 15»
9
For fear of Morsi, Egypt's secularists got something far worse
Analysts believe the Muslim Brotherhood had ''favoured a more gradualist approach”. One of several factors that caused Morsi to fall out of ... «Middle East Eye, Jun 15»
10
The tracks of their tears
The pro-Beijing camp can produce little evidence that its gradualist approach has any chance of success. And the taint of this month's shambles ... «The Economist, Jun 15»

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