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extremist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun extremist has 1 sense
- extremist(n = noun.person) Array - a person who holds extreme views; Array is a kind of radical
Derived form noun extremism1
Adjective extremist has 1 sense
- extremist(s = adj.all) radical, ultra - (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative"
CIDE DICTIONARY
extremist, n.
A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
extremist, n. (also attrib.) a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views and esp. resorts to or advocates extreme action.
Derivative
extremism n.
THESAURUS
extremist
Bolshevik, Fabian, Jacobin, Wobbly, agitator, anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, bigoted, brawler, extravagant, extreme, extreme left-winger, extremistic, fanatic, frondeur, haggard, inordinate, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, irrational, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, malcontent, maverick, meliorist, mild radical, mildly radical, mutineer, nihilist, nihilistic, nonconformist, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overzealous, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, perfervid, pink, pinko, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, rabid, radical, rebel, red, reformer, reformist, revisionist, revolter, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, sans-culotte, subversive, syndicalist, traitor, ultra, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, ultrazealous, unreasonable, utopian, utopist, wild-eyed, wild-looking, yippie, zealotic
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