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extremist

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative" [syn: radical , ultra ] n. a person who holds extreme views

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE political ▪ Many social scientists have found the closed world of political extremists to be an exotic topic of study. ▪ These valid concerns have become polarized by political extremists . ▪ As we have noted, there ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who goes to extremes, a supporter of extreme doctrines," 1840, from extreme + -ist .\n

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An extremist is a proponent of extremism. Extremist may also refer to: Political fringe movements

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 holding extreme views, especially on a political subject 2 of, or relating to extremism n. a person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic

Usage examples of extremist.

Bismarck detested the parliamentarism which he associated with England, but also because, on our side too, extremists were stirring up ill-feeling.

Lastly there was a very small contingent of extremists, Zwinglians and Anabaptists, all classed together as blasphemers and as social agitators.

Around the time of the proceedings, both parts of the now united Germany were experiencing a series of right-wing extremist criminal acts, among them the attempted killing of a Hungarian in Potsdam with baseball bats and the beating of a retiree in Bochum that led to his death.

Ville the leaders of the various republican factions, from moderate Third Partyists to the Communard extremists, and all those men began wrangling as to how a new government could quickest be instituted and which among them would constitute it.

Even the less flamboyant Fools courted danger: The half-and-half extremists seemed almost to glory in it.

Her brand of sexual isolationism is far gentler than the extremist doctrine I depict, which shamefully misuses her name on planet Stratos.

It is only as an Austrian who came of age in the last decade before the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire, who failed to take root in its civilized capital, who embraced all the preposterous prejudices and hates then rife among its German-speaking extremists and who failed to grasp what was decent and honest and honorable in the vast majority of his fellow citizens, were they Czechs or Jews or Germans, poor or well off, artists or artisans, that Hitler can be understood.

Thompson listened to Social Democrats, Social Laborites, syndicalists, radicals, revolutionaries, philosophical anarchists, men with social and economic theories of the extremist type.

Muslim extremist Qutb - but Moore, of course, has a multimedia pulpit and an enormous audience.

The extreme conclusions, peppery rhetoric, and passionate declamation of the leaders on both sides, who aim at sensation and victory, are surest to awaken the enthusiasm of the extremists, who always direct the admiring gaze of heir parasites to the favorite representatives of their own party, their scorn to the favorite representatives of the other party.

For several years Toral had been building up a strong following of extremists.

Mo wants to get rid of drug dealers, so he goes to the extremist Reverend Bill, and the two of them take vigilantism to a new level.

The moderate Muslim faith is under siege by the Wahhabi extremists of Saudi Arabia.

Frank Rich demanded that Ashcroft stop monkeying around with Muslim terrorists and concentrate on anti-abortion extremists.

Special Branch has already conducted an extensive search for extremists who might be even remotely connected with Arab or Islamic causes.