centrist
23
4.2
- noun
- /ˈsɛntrɪst/
- Because the Dems have gone so far left, the centrists had no place else to go.
- centrists and conservatives
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeBernie was crushed by the centrists, pushed out.
- Bernie was crushed by the centrists, pushed out.
- It turned out just because Barack Obama, who is a stone centrist by the way, was black.
- I don't, I I actually got accused once of being an ultra centrist.
- But think of myself as a centrist, not as a particularly partisan political actor.
- I think he is like the one guy that I truly believe is a real centrist.
- But like right now, there are times I see the political landscape where I have more in common with the populist leftists than I do the centrists in my own party.
- Pretending to be a centrist, that is the lamest role play.
- Look, Rishi Sunak, he's young, he's a centrist young whether they keep him in or not.
- And they're like, well, these centrist like ourselves are freaking useless.
Examples
-
And we have examples where significant candidates on the left or the right have beat out a centrist candidate.
-
There is no reason, moreover, to think that the Court's centrists would disagree.
Academic text (2001) -
Of course, maybe not, but a centrist should be ready to accept that possibility.
Blog text (7) -
And they say these people, their ideas and and political positions are centrist because they are consistent with most Americans.
-
But think of myself as a centrist, not as a particularly partisan political actor.
-
In the past, both parties had ranks of centrists who would cross and vote with the other side.
Blog text (17) -
But right now, the Democratic Party is uniting leftist, centrist Democratic mainstays.
-
Unless Congress reaps some more centrists in the next election, we're bound for more gridlock and inaction.
Blog text (1) -
France's politics had settled around a grand compromise between the royalist ultra conservatives, the liberal centrists, and the radical Republicans.
-
Our governor is a centrist, and he wants very badly to create good policy for Colorado.
Synonyms
114
4.6
A person with political views that are not extreme
1
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 means 'a person who'. So a centrist as a noun is a person with 'middle' or moderate political views who avoids extremes on either side.