0 a person who believes in humanism (= the idea that people do not need a god or religion to satisfy their spiritual and emotional needs):
She is a liberal and a humanist.
I respected him as a man of exceptional moral stature and a humanist.
1 relating to or believing in humanism (= the idea that people do not need a god or religion to satisfy their spiritual and emotional needs):
Both men come from a humanist tradition.
He was a humanist, an urbanist, and, above all, an artist.
Among the first targets of the Spanish Inquisition were the humanists.
A group of self-proclaimed humanists came out in defence of cloning.
What people mean by "progressive" or "humanist" often is not clear.
