FUNDAMENTALISTS Synonyms

• a person who holds extreme views

• (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm

• a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

• marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

• a conservative who is uncompromising

• a militant reformer

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• showing a fighting disposition

• engaged in war

• of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root

• especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule

• a person who has radical ideas or opinions

• (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity

• a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm

• markedly new or introducing radical change

• arising from or going to the root or source

• a fervent and even militant proponent of something

• a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first century who fought to the death against the Romans and who killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans

• of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism

• of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents