| Main Entry: | extremist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person zealous about a belief |
Synonyms: |
agitator, die-hard, fanatic, radical, revolutionary, revolutionist, ultra, ultraist, zealot |
Antonyms: |
conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | bigot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced person |
Synonyms: |
chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, enthusiast, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, monomaniac, opinionated person, partisan, persecutor, puritan, racist, sectarian, segregationist, sexist, stickler, superpatriot, zealot |
Antonyms: |
humanitarian, liberal, tolerator |
| Main Entry: | diehard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic person |
Synonyms: |
Bourbon, Tory, bitter ender, dyed-in-the-wool, extremist, fanatic, fogy, fundamentalist, intransigent, mossback, old liner, praetorian, pullback, reactionary, right, right-winger, rightist, standpat, standpatter, stick-in-the-mud, true blue, ultraconservative, zealot |
| Main Entry: | fanatic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person overenthusiastic about an interest |
Synonyms: |
activist, addict, bigot, bug*, crank, crazy, demon, devotee, enthusiast, extremist, fiend*, fool, freak, maniac, militant, monomaniac, nut*, radical, ultraist, visionary, zealot |
| Main Entry: | maverick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes chances, departs from accepted course |
Synonyms: |
bohemian, dissenter, extremist, malcontent, nonconformist, radical |
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who advocates significant, often extreme change |
Synonyms: |
agitator, anarchist, avant-garde, extremist, fanatic, firebrand, freethinker, iconoclast, insurgent, insurrectionist, left-winger, leftist, militant, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, objector, pacifist, progressive, rebel, reformer, renegade, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, secessionist, subversive, ultraist |
Antonyms: |
conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is narrow-minded |
Synonyms: |
adherent, bigot, cohort, disciple, dissenter, dissident, dogmatist, extremist, fanatic, heretic, maverick, misbeliever, nonconformist, partisan, radical, rebel, revolutionary, satellite, schismatic, separatist, supporter, true believer, zealot |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
Antonyms: |
liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | zealot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiast |
Synonyms: |
activist, diehard, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, militant, nut, radical, ultra*, young Turk |
Antonyms: |
moderate |
| Main Entry: | lunatic fringe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holders of extreme views |
Synonyms: |
aficionados, energumen, extremists, fanatical group, fanaticos, fanatics, nuts, nympholepts, zealots |