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Dadaist^¹

/ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/ UK

adjective dadaist

not comparable In the style of Dada. Breton's Surrealist movement transformed Dadaist despair -- at both the war and the technologies that had led to it -- into a constructive assault on social and sexual norms.

noun Dadaists · dadaist

An artist or writer who practiced Dada. To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary

dadaist^²

adjective

not comparable Alternative letter-case form of Dadaist

noun dadaists

Alternative letter-case form of Dadaist In 1976 and 1977, and the years to follow, as symbolically remade by the Sex Pistols, it was, perhaps, dadaists, lettrists, situationists, and various medieval heretics.

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@misc{dadaist_2026,
  title = {dadaist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dadaist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}