Meanings
chartist1
plural chartists
- businessA financial analyst who attempts to predict future movements in the prices of shares or other financial instruments by looking for patterns in charts of historical data.
Chartist2
plural Chartists
- historicalA supporter of the Chartism reform movement in the United Kingdom.
There to be a real blessing, raising new corn for us, purchasing new webs and hatchets from us; leaving us at least in peace; instead of staying here to be a physical-force Chartist, unblessed and no blessing!
1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out
- historicalnot comparableRelating to Chartism.
As to the Chartist agitation, there is this to be said of it, that it was thoroughly a working-class movement, and it was caused by the simplest and most powerful of all causes—hunger.
1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 102
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
French chartiste, chartiste
- chartistea financial analyst who attempts to predict future movements in the prices of shares or other financial instruments by looking for patterns in charts of historical data
- chartistea supporter of the Chartism reform movement
- chartisterelating to Chartism
Italian cartista, cartista
- cartistaa supporter of the Chartism reform movement
- cartistarelating to Chartism
Polish czartysta, czartystowski
- czartystaa supporter of the Chartism reform movement
- czartystowskirelating to Chartism
Russian чартист
- чартист (čartist)a supporter of the Chartism reform movement
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chartist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chartist
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