centrist
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5.0
- adjective
- /ˈsɛntrɪst/
- Many voters appreciated the candidate's centrist approach, as it appealed to both sides of the political spectrum.
- centrist views
- a centrist party
- a centrist candidate
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Watch on YouTubeYou know, I, I feel like I have a centrist view on it.
- You know, I, I feel like I have a centrist view on it.
- He spoke MAGA in a way that that that centrist voters could appreciate.
- So their incentive is not to print content or, or, or produce content that's kind of centrist or down the line either.
- And I'm so sick of a few people in the Democratic Party trotting out like there are centrist saviors.
- And hey, when I was when I was a young guy, I didn't ever think I'd be looking for a consensus centrist country.
- Call yourself what you are, Twitter and Facebook, which is we are centrist globalist imperialists.
Examples
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As hostile political encounters lead increasingly to mutually damaging outcomes, moderate, centrist politics may become an acceptable alternative.
Academic text (1995) -
The reforms on the table are so centrist it's nauseating to someone like me.
Blog text (10) -
You know, I, I feel like I have a centrist view on it.
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Has the world gone so far left that actually, you know, just being a centrist feels far right?
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And he was always a centrist Democrat.
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Maybe it's time for a third party, a centrist party that's not extremely conservative or liberal.
Blog text (9) -
Chapman suggests that the system would guarantee a centrist government with moderate policies, and indeed it would.
Academic text (1990) -
Throughout this period, the Social Democratic Party managed to cobble together minority governments with smaller centrist parties.
Academic text (1996) -
Using this criterion, Canada is quite centrist when viewed in the context of the industrialized countries.
Academic text (2006) -
And although much of the international community dismissed Netanyahu's unprecedented ten-month settlement freeze as insufficient, centrist Israelis applauded it.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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4.6
A person with political views that are not extreme
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4.7
Something that is not extreme in politics or personal tastes
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7.3
A person who has moderate political views between left and right
A person who has political views in the middle and avoids extremes
Antonyms
How Moderate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Centrist comes from the common word center, which means 'middle', plus the ending -ist that shows a position. So a centrist adjective describes a 'middle' or moderate political view between the left and the right.