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EXTREMIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does extremist mean?
• EXTREMIST (noun)
The noun EXTREMIST has 1 sense:
1. a person who holds extreme views
Familiarity information: EXTREMIST used as a noun is very rare.
• EXTREMIST (adjective)
The adjective EXTREMIST has 1 sense:
1. (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
Familiarity information: EXTREMIST used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who holds extreme views
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("extremist" is a kind of...):
radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)
Derivation:
extremism (any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
Synonyms:
Context example:
an ultra conservative
Similar:
immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)
Context examples
You are an extremist, you know, dear, and what may be intelligible to you may not be intelligible to the rest of us.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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