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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | die-hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncompromising |
| Synonyms: | Philistine, Tory, conservative, convinced, dyed-in-the-wool, extremist, firm, fogyish, immovable, inflexible, intransigent, old-line, orthodox, reactionary, right, standpat, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unreconstructed |
| Antonyms: | compromising, conceding, flexible |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | rabid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; maniacal |
| Synonyms: | berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, flipped, foaming at the mouth, frantic, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot*, infuriated, insane, intemperate, intolerant, irrational, keen, mad, mad-dog, narrow-minded, nutty, obsessed, overboard, poisoned, radical, raging, revolutionary, sick*, sizzling, smoking, steamed up, ultra, ultraist, violent, virulent, wild, zealous |
| Antonyms: | delighted, happy, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deviating by extremes |
| Synonyms: | advanced, anarchistic, complete, entire, excessive, extremist, fanatical, far-out, freethinking, iconoclastic, immoderate, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, intransigent, lawless, leftist, militant, mutinous, nihilistic, progressive, rabid, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, severe, sweeping, thorough, ultra, ultraist, uncompromising, violent, way out |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
| 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 |
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