Wed, 22 October

cubist, adj. (kyo͞o'bĭst) 1. Of or relating to the practice of seeing all sides of a decision at once, including the side that hasn't happened yet. 2. Describing any committee in which each participant believes they are the central node. See also: Léger, Fernand; org chart; prayer wheel. 3. Of a sky: broken into planes of blue that do not agree on the weather. 4. Of a ticket stub: floating free of the event it once promised, becoming instead a circle, a color, a thing someone almost forgot to buy. 5. Of completion: the state in which geometries stop ascending and simply stand there, surprised by their own altitude. Usage: "The meeting was cubist— everyone left having attended a different one." Origin: Fr. cubisme, from L. cubus, a die. As in: cast.