cultist
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈkʌltɪst/
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sectario
- In the community, the cultist was known for spreading unusual beliefs to new followers.
- doomsday cultists
- satanic cultists
- white cultists
You're the person who's almost acting like a cultist.
- You're the person who's almost acting like a cultist.
- And then they have completely morphed over to full blown Trumpers, cultists.
- They sound not like serious journalists or serious news analysts, but they sound like cultists.
- The second he gets out of his right wing media echo chamber and away from the MAGA cultists, he faces what MAGA calls, quote, real Americans.
- No self consciousness, as Hegel says in the cult, the cultists.
- They're going to be consolidated into what what Hegel is calling the cult in German, the cultists.
- He he has no respect and he's just gone full blown mag, a cultist and Rolling Stone interviewed him and he just completely spirals.
Examples
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A dozen cultists sit cross-legged on the floor in front of their leader, William Nix.
Fiction book (1995) -
Well, that's what a cultist would say.
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Now we see that the Cultists have bottles in their hands.
Fiction book (1995) -
One by one, the cultists fall to their knees.
Fiction book (1995) -
But we hear it and see the agony on the cultists' faces.
Fiction book (1995) -
We move through the shadowy interior, catching sight of several cultists as we go.
Fiction book (1995) -
As the cultists breached the Ridge, we knew we outnumbered them.
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Quaid looks into a large circular room where five cultists (three men and two women) still sit.
Fiction book (1995) -
The cultist chanted prayers as the sun began to rise over the mountain.
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We watched the cultist perform a ritual that seemed strange to outsiders.
Synonyms
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5.1
A person with very strong enthusiasm for a cause who ignores reason
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8.1
A person who supports a cause very strongly and refuses to change
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cultist comes from cult, which comes from the Latin cultus meaning 'care' or 'worship', plus the ending -ist that means 'a person who does something'. So a cultist is someone who belongs to and strongly follows a cult or its unusual beliefs.