1. an artist, writer, or performer who practices or advocates Dada, an early 20th-century avant-garde movement characterized by absurdity, irrationality, and rejection of conventional artistic values
Usage: often capitalized; historical art movement context

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Dada or dadaists; absurd or irrational in style or manner
Usage: often capitalized when referring to the movement; can be used informally to describe anything nonsensical

Examples

• Hugo Ball was a prominent dadaist who performed sound poetry at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich.
• The museum's new exhibition features works by dadaist painters from the 1920s.
• Her dadaist approach to sculpture involved random assemblies of found objects.
• The film's dadaist humor relied on nonsensical dialogue and illogical sequences.
• Marcel Duchamp became famous as a dadaist artist after submitting a urinal as artwork.
• The poet's dadaist style rejected traditional rhyme and narrative structure.