fundamentalist
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7.6
- adjective
- /ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəlɪst/
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fundamentalista
- The group's fundamentalist views on education restrict the curriculum to only traditional methods.
- fundamentalist beliefs
- fundamentalist movement
- fundamentalist groups
The Afrikaner National Party driven by a number of fundamentalist initiatives.
- The Afrikaner National Party driven by a number of fundamentalist initiatives.
- Of course, we've taken in people who are not of that liberal nature, who are much more fundamentalist in their view.
- If this country becomes a fundamentalist and militarist dictatorship, it can set fire to the entire Middle East.
- Islam became more like soup hyper fundamentalist religious, and India also became more religious.
- Do you think that people who are consumed by a business fundamentalist oriented cult like this have any capacity for love?
Examples
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Of course, we've taken in people who are not of that liberal nature, who are much more fundamentalist in their view.
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Speaking of recent decades, the Islamic fundamentalist world would seem to be worse offenders.
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Why is it that the fundamentalist men of Islam are so afraid of women?
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Some people believe that this was an act of terrorism by an Islamic fundamentalist organization.
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Bob Jones University prides itself on its founding and association with the fundamentalist movement.
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Many evangelical and fundamentalist Christians had shown relatively little interest in Israel immediately after its war of independence.
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And one is the connected to the high degree of fundamentalist religiosity that characterizes this country.
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But on the other hand, a fundamentalist Muslim regime would undoubtedly suppress certain civil, political, social, and economic rights.
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A great majority of the people in Kamina have a fundamentalist approach to Christianity, with a literalist approach to the Bible.
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On 12 January 1992, the army-backed government canceled parliamentary elections, apparently to prevent fundamentalist Muslims from winning power.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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6.8
Very strong support for an idea or cause without question
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6.5
Holding strongly to old customs and resisting change
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8.1
Very strongly supporting traditional beliefs and opposing social change
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8.9
Strict belief that basic religious or political rules must be followed exactly
Compounds
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6.5
A group of people who follow strict religious rules and reject modern ideas
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7.7
Strong religious ideas that follow a holy book exactly and refuse modern changes
How Strict
Surface Forms
Morphology
fundamentalist = fundamental (transparent) = fundamental + ist
The word 'fundamentalist' is transparently derived from 'fundamental' with the addition of the suffix '-ist', indicating a person or thing that practices or is concerned with something.
Etymology
Fundamentalist comes from fundamental, which means the 'foundation' or 'base' of something, and the ending -ist, which means a person who follows an idea. So a fundamentalist is someone who sticks closely to those basic beliefs.