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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
extremist
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 were a number of political extremists.
religious
▪ However, he was alarmed to find the army was being infiltrated by those he regarded as religious extremists.
■ NOUN
group
▪ But the incendiary devices were different from those used in previous arson attacks by the extremist group.
▪ The department did not link the two to any extremist groups and has closed its case.
▪ Loyalist extremist groups which planted bombs, on the other hand, often gave no warning.
▪ The nights belonged to the several extremist groups demanding an independent Sikh state.
▪ A Right-wing extremist group, the White Wolves, yesterday claimed responsibility for the attack.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Left-wing extremists have threatened to disrupt the political convention.
▪ right-wing political extremists
▪ The government condemns anyone who disagrees with it as extremists.
▪ The regime has been accused of supporting extremists in other countries in the region.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 50 Left-wingers clashed with 20 Right-wing extremists in Chemnitz.
▪ Are student extremists different from other students in their intelligence or idealism or independence?
▪ Both the Carlist right and the extremist left could later appeal to this primitive rebellion.
▪ But the incendiary devices were different from those used in previous arson attacks by the extremist group.
▪ It will eradicate the power of the extremist minority in political parties.
▪ Personally, I am against extremists of any political persuasion.
▪ Then in the 1980s, the party also became associated in the voters' mind with extremists.
▪ We were slated for our views, and spent the rest of the weekend being ignored or branded as extremists.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extremist

Extremist \Ex*trem"ist\, n. A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
extremist

"one who goes to extremes, a supporter of extreme doctrines," 1840, from extreme + -ist.\n

Wiktionary
extremist

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

WordNet
extremist
  1. adj. (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative" [syn: radical, ultra]

  2. n. a person who holds extreme views

Wikipedia
Extremist (album)

Extremist is the seventh studio album by American metalcore band Demon Hunter. The album was released on March 18, 2014 through Solid State Records. Extremist sold nearly 18,000 copies its first week and debuted at no. 16 on the Billboard 200.

Extremist (disambiguation)

An extremist is a proponent of extremism.

Extremist may also refer to:

  • Political fringe movements

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.