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| Main Entry: |
diehard
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| 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: | 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: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bitter-ender, classicist, conserver, conventionalist, diehard, hard hat, middle-of-the-roader, moderate, moderatist, obstructionist, old guard, old liner, preserver, reactionary, redneck, right, right-winger, rightist, silk-stocking, standpat, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist, unprogressive |
| Antonyms: | left-winger, liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | partisan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, factional |
| Synonyms: | accessory, adhering, biased, bigoted, blind, cliquish, colored, conspiratorial, denominational, devoted, diehard, exclusive, fanatic, jaundiced, one-sided, overzealous, partial, prejudiced, prepossessed, sectarian, sympathetic, tendentious, unjust, unreasoning, warped, zealous |
| Antonyms: | disinterested |
| Main Entry: | racist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bigot |
| Synonyms: | anti-Semite, black supremacist, chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, fanatic, klansperson, opinionated person, prejudiced person, sectarian, segregationist, sexist person, white supremacist, xenophobe |
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is politically conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bitter-ender, counterrevolutionary, diehard, hard hat, intransigent, obscurantist, reactionist, right-winger, rightist, royalist, standpatter, traditionalist, ultraconservative |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is old-fashioned, conventional |
| Synonyms: | antediluvian, conservative, diehard, fuddy-duddy, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist |
| Main Entry: | stick-in-the-mud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unadventurous person |
| Synonyms: | antediluvian, conservative, diehard, diehard, fossil, fuddy-duddy, mossback, obstinate person, old fogy, person set in ways, reactionary |
| Antonyms: | adventurer |
| Main Entry: | zealot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiast |
| Synonyms: | activist, diehard, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, militant, nut, radical, ultra*, young Turk |
| Antonyms: | moderate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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