FUNDAMENTALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fundamentalist mean? 

• FUNDAMENTALIST (noun)
  The noun FUNDAMENTALIST has 2 senses:

1. an adherent of fundamentalist principles

2. a supporter of fundamentalism

  Familiarity information: FUNDAMENTALIST used as a noun is rare.

• FUNDAMENTALIST (adjective)
  The adjective FUNDAMENTALIST has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents

2. of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism

  Familiarity information: FUNDAMENTALIST used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNDAMENTALIST (noun)

Sense 1

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.)

Sense 2

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)

• FUNDAMENTALIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

fundamentalist; fundamentalistic

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

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

fundamentalist; fundamentalistic

Pertainym:

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