HARDLINERS Synonyms

• the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments

• with resolute determination

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• not soft or yielding to pressure

• strong and sure

• not subject to revision or change

• (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling

• not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall

• securely established

• possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue

• securely fixed in place

• unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause

• become taut or tauter

• make taut or tauter

• any political orientation favoring aggressive policies

• incapable of change

• not making concessions

• resistant to being bent

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination

• characterized by quickness and firmness

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• not making concessions

• stubbornly unyielding

• resistant to physical force or pressure

• one who adheres to traditional views

• 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

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

• of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism

• an adherent of fundamentalist principles

• a supporter of fundamentalism

• 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