Talk:nudist

RFD discussion: December 2016–February 2017

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nudist

The adjective is really attributive use of the noun, e.g. nudist beach, but the translations seem to be for both noun and adjective. A bit of a mess. DonnanZ (talk) 14:08, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

• Keep; MW[1] has nudist as not only a noun but also an adjective; so does Collins[2]. One can argue that nudist is an adjective not only for the noun nudist but also for nudism; that's how e.g. Marxist ends up being an adjective. I have even found one quotation of "more nudist" that was the true comparative, but the search for "more nudist" gets a lot of hits like "more nudist beaches" rather than comparatives. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:35, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

  Keep There are more than enough instances of women/beaches/village/I/you/they/it being nudist, ie, predicate use. Example:

  1999, Time Out, Time Out Lisbon 1‎^{[books.google.com]}:

  The final stretch is nudist and if ever there was a beach to bare your butt, this is it.

  DCDuring TALK 20:52, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

  Note: the definition in the entry does not work for most of the subjects for which I found predicate use, eg, women who "are nudist" do not necessarily "encourage or enforce nudity". DCDuring TALK 21:02, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

  I have rewritten the def. I still disagree that it's used as an adjective in the majority of cases, it's usually attributive, a noun modifier. DonnanZ (talk) 11:24, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 04:14, 5 February 2017 (UTC)