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CENTRIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does centrist mean?
• CENTRIST (noun)
The noun CENTRIST has 1 sense:
1. a person who takes a position in the political center
Familiarity information: CENTRIST used as a noun is very rare.
• CENTRIST (adjective)
The adjective CENTRIST has 1 sense:
1. supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative
Familiarity information: CENTRIST used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who takes a position in the political center
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
centrist; middle of the roader; moderate; moderationist
Hypernyms ("centrist" is a kind of...):
adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
Holonyms ("centrist" is a member of...):
center (politically moderate persons; centrists)
Derivation:
centrism (a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action)
centrist (supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative
Synonyms:
centrist; middle-of-the-road
Similar:
center (of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually)
Derivation:
centrist (a person who takes a position in the political center)
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