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    FUNDAMENTALIST

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A supporter of fundamentalismplay

    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 principlesplay

    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 adherentsplay

    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 fundamentalismplay

    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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