Used in a Sentence

cubist

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cubist.

Editorial note

I always took it as a Cubist portrait of a face where the perspective is simultaneously from the side and the front.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A player of Rubik's cube; a cuber.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cubist gathered in one view.

noun

A player of Rubik's cube; a cuber.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Cubist. [(art) An artist who works in the style of cubism.]

adjective

Of, or pertaining to cubism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cubist.

noun

A player of Rubik's cube; a cuber.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Cubist. [(art) An artist who works in the style of cubism.]

adjective

Of, or pertaining to cubism.

adjective

Alternative letter-case form of Cubist. [Of, or pertaining to cubism.]

Example sentences

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I always took it as a Cubist portrait of a face where the perspective is simultaneously from the side and the front.

2

Wouldn't a cubist app require a 3D model of the subject, or at least photos taken at multiple angles?

3

They even discarded the cubist element of the Finder icon, which would have been interesting in 3-D.

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Example from art: if you were insistent on viewing the Mona Lisa from a cubist aesthetic, it would be a crummy painting.

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It is a poster child for the dystopian, a cubist insult to anyone who has the misfortune of laying eyes on it.

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Declaring you want Picasso cubist, Warner brothers cartoon, or hyper realistic works today.

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Like looking at a cubist artwork - each part is reasonable but the whole doesn't fit together, or had parts missing (not holes, just discontinuities).

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I’m not always into the more cubist takes on pieces, but this one feels right.

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Edit: It's like complaining that the Mona Lisa is a crappy painting, because you are insistent on looking at it as if you were a cubist.

10

Could it detect my dog, or a Cubist rendering?

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Optimer, I believe has been bought by Cubist and delisted from Nasdaq.

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And even if you can find some magic superglue left in the tube to hold it there, it has to hang there for weeks: A cubist sword of Damocles.

Quote examples

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Just because the first "cubist" painting came before the term got coined doesn't mean it isn't a cubist painting.

2

Dick took the ideas of technological advances and psychic ability too far in his story, "Minority Report", or like saying Pablo Picasso took multi-perspective simplicity too far in his Cubist paintings.

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In other words, if you like Cubist art, or hamburgers, or tofu, do you require all of those to be somehow "proven" before you're allowed to like them?

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In my mind that doesn't make Strads any less valuable - an original Picasso is still valued so highly because it was created by the master that invented Cubism, but that doesn't mean that a modern painter couldn't create a Cubist painting that was "just as good", objectively.

Proper noun examples

1

Cubist Media Group is a creative corporate communications agency.

2

>>Cubist Pharmaceuticals, a company with about 750 employees, recently put sensors on 30 of their employees to track the tone and frequency of their lunch conversations.

3

Cubist painters were trying to free themselves from the confines of a single integral plane of perspective by allowing themselves to show various parts of the image from different viewpoints, different times, different styles, etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cubist in a sentence?

I always took it as a Cubist portrait of a face where the perspective is simultaneously from the side and the front.

What does cubist mean?

A player of Rubik's cube; a cuber.

What part of speech is cubist?

cubist is commonly used as noun, adjective.