Prepopulist
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Prior to the onset of populism. not-comparable
"STANWYCK REDUX (Tuesday) An extension of the Brooklyn Academy of Music s popular Barbara Stanwyck series from last spring, featuring that Brooklyn bombshell in one of her strongest pre-Code films, The Miracle Woman, a thinly veiled portrait of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson directed, in his prepopulist phase, by Frank Capra."
Example
More examples"STANWYCK REDUX (Tuesday) An extension of the Brooklyn Academy of Music s popular Barbara Stanwyck series from last spring, featuring that Brooklyn bombshell in one of her strongest pre-Code films, The Miracle Woman, a thinly veiled portrait of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson directed, in his prepopulist phase, by Frank Capra."
Etymology
From pre- + populist.
More for "prepopulist"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.