ideologue
- noun
- /ˈaɪdiəˌloʊg/
- The candidate was criticized for being an ideologue who ignored the practical needs of the community.
- a party ideologue
- a political ideologue
- a conservative ideologue
Bob Hope is up there making fun of Nazi ideologues such as Gurgles.
- Bob Hope is up there making fun of Nazi ideologues such as Gurgles.
- We need fewer ideologues and more pragmatists.
- The best case scenario is that Trump is not an ideologue.
- Well, believe it or not, I'm not an ideologue.
- As a Brezhnev era ideologue Mikhail Souzlak once said, we don't skip on ideology.
- Well, the ideologues on the left took hold of what Doctor Money was saying.
- You put all those things together and you have to be a hopeless ideologue to think that cancer is a genetic disease.
- It'll be the non western ideologues that the West's anti racists import en masse.
- But they he clearly seemed to be able to get wasn't like an ideologue.
- And so I think that's another intolerable trade off that has been made by woke ideologues or liberals, as I often say as well.
- It's another explanation for me about why people who are not extremist cookie cutter ideologues get criticized an awful lot.
- And so now those people who left, the ideologues, the subverters, they can go to blue sky, red sky, green sky, who cares?
Examples
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Rachel is like all the other right-wing ideologues... blame the media for their failures...
Blog text (3) -
The WH may be full of authoritarian ideologues, but they are not always that smart.
Blog text (1) -
By contrast, the ideologue can find support for his views in the most unlikely places.
Academic text (1992) -
And they are filled in by real ideologues who believe in that message.
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I think I'd rather have that we get closer to direct democracy than to have a bunch of ideologues, I suppose.
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We need fewer ideologues and more pragmatists.
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A more accurate description would present the conflict as one between pragmatists and ideologues.
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Some Argentines maintain that this group became the chief ideologues for the Peronists.
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Hitler put the nation under martial law and appointed Nazi ideologue Werner Best as its plenipotentiary.
Academic text (1999) -
As a Brezhnev era ideologue Mikhail Souzlak once said, we don't skip on ideology.
Synonyms
Showing strong support for one side and not being fair
A person with very strong political or religious views who supports radical action
A person who supports an idea, plan, or cause
A person with very strong enthusiasm for a cause who ignores reason
A person who supports a party, leader, or idea and helps promote it
A person who refuses to change their beliefs, especially in politics
A person who holds strict beliefs and refuses to accept compromise
A person who strongly supports a set of political or social beliefs
A person who strongly holds their own beliefs and does not listen to other views
A person who sticks to fixed ideas and refuses to change them even if they do not work
A person who supports and promotes an idea or cause
Antonyms
How Ideological
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ideologue comes from idea ('idea') and -logue ('speaker' or 'speech'), like in dialogue and monologue. So an ideologue is someone who speaks for and follows one set of ideas very strongly, often without listening to other views.