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FUNDAMENTALIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A supporter of fundamentalism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fundamentalist" is a kind of...):

Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)

Derivation:

fundamentalism (a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An adherent of fundamentalist principles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fundamentalist" is a kind of...):

adherent; disciple (someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another)

Derivation:

fundamentalism (the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents

Synonyms:

fundamentalist; fundamentalistic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)

Pertainym:

fundamentalism (a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism

Synonyms:

fundamentalist; fundamentalistic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

fundamentalism (the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.)

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