Usually means: Advocate of radical, extreme ideologies.
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  1. extremist: Merriam-Webster
  2. extremist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extremist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extremist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extremist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extremist, extremist: Wordnik
  7. extremist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extremist: Wiktionary
  9. extremist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. extremist: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Extremist, extremist: Dictionary.com
  12. extremist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Extremist (album), Extremist (disambiguation), Extremist, The Extremist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Extremist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. extremist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. extremist: Rhymezone
  17. extremist: FreeDictionary.org
  18. extremist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. extremist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Extremist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. extremist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. extremist: Encyclopedia

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  1. extremist: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (politics) A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.
▸ adjective:  Holding extreme views, especially on a political or religious subject.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to extremism.

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radical, ultra, immoderate, radicalist, radicalizer, ultraradical, endman, sextremist, ultrafanatic, fanatic, more...

Opposite:
moderate, centrist

Types:
religious, political, social, more...

Phrases:
religious extremist, The Extremist, Russian Federation list of terrorist and extremist organizations, Federal List of Extremist Materials, an extremist, more...

Adjectives:
wing, more, political, religious, dangerous, islamic, hindu, radical, muslim, less, right

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Similar:
radical, ultra, immoderate, radicalist, radicalizer, ultraradical, endman, sextremist, ultrafanatic, fanatic, more...

Opposite:
moderate, centrist

Types:
religious, political, social, more...

Phrases:
religious extremist, The Extremist, Russian Federation list of terrorist and extremist organizations, Federal List of Extremist Materials, an extremist, right wing extremist, more...

Adjectives:
wing, more, political, religious, dangerous, islamic, hindu, radical, muslim, less, right

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark green,     navy blue,     maroon, more...



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