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conspiracist

conspiracist

2 8.8
A person who believes hidden groups control events and tells others
  • noun
  • /kənˈspɪrəsɪst/
translation icon : teórico de la conspiración
  • She often engages with conspiracists online, discussing various theories about unexplained phenomena.

And it is part of the extremely online left of center conspiracist mindset.

Examples

  • That's really like dog whistling the conspiracists so hard these days.

  • And I'm not being a conspiracist, but a realist.

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  • Until recently, I was not a "conspiracist" but am now willing to consider it as a possibility.

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  • And it is part of the extremely online left of center conspiracist mindset.

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  • Many of the new world order conspiracists make this same error.

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  • So many who were labeled as conspiracists were telling the truth and were made fun of and discredited.

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  • Joseph Farah, who runs the conspiracist "news" site WorldNetDaily, sounded typical.

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  • We're rude and mean here because many of us care deeply about evidence-based medicine and won't be told by a bunch of conspiracist trolls that we're paid by big pharmaceutical companies to lie about our motives and evidence.

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  • Many people dismissed him as a conspiracist for suggesting that there was a hidden agenda behind the government's policies.

  • The documentary explores the mindset of a conspiracist and how it affects their interpretation of events.

Synonyms

conspiracy theorist
vsconspiracist
19 6.6

A person who thinks powerful people secretly plan important events

also promotes such ideas and suspects secret control by powerful groups
conspiracy fuzznut
vsconspiracist
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who believes secret groups control events without proof

is a neutral label describing belief or promotion rather than an insult

Antonyms

skeptic
  • US
77 4.1

A person who often doubts accepted ideas and asks for proof

How Conspiratorial

truther
  • Slang
9.2
conspiracist
2 8.8
doubter
19 4.2
skeptic
  • US
77 4.1

Surface Forms

conspiracist singular
conspiracists plural

Morphology

conspiracist = conspiracy (transparent) = conspiracy + ist

The agentive suffix '-ist' attached to the clear noun 'conspiracy' yields a person who believes in or promotes conspiracies, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Conspiracist comes from the verb conspire, which is built from con- 'together' and spirare 'to breathe', so it painted the picture of people 'breathing together' in secret to plan. The ending -ist means 'a person who believes or does something', so a conspiracist is someone who believes in or spreads ideas about secret plots.