fundamentalist
fundamentalist noun: one who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.
Noun
fundamentalist (plural fundamentalists)
- One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.
- A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician.
- Antonyms:
- chartist, technician
- Originally referred to an adherent of an American Christian movement that began as a response to the rejection of the accuracy of the Bible, the alleged deity of Christ, Christ's atonement for humanity, the virgin birth, and miracles.
- A fundamentalist Christian.
- Synonyms:
- fundie
fundamentalist meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
fundamentalist in Tamil
- அடிப்படைவாதி
fundamentalist in Marathi
- मूलभूतवादी
fundamentalist in Urdu
- fundamentalist
- بنیاد پرست buniyād parast
fundamentalist in Bengali
- মৌলিকবাদী
More languagesFewer languages
- fundamentalist in Telugu
- బత్తాయి battāyi
- fundamentalist in Kannada
- ಮೂಲಭೂತವಾದಿ, ಮೂಲತತ್ತ್ವವಾದಿ
- fundamentalist in Odia
- ମୌଳିକବାଦୀ, ମୌଲବୀବାଦୀ
- fundamentalist in Arabic
- أُصُولِيّ ʔuṣūliyy
Examples of fundamentalist in a sentence
- For a Roman Catholic teacher, he sure is a diehard fundamentalist.
- To many people a born-again philosophy is a fundamentalist philosophy.
- Despite contrary admonitions, they held to their fundamentalist Christian views.
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Antonyms
Forms of fundamentalist
| plural | fundamentalists |
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Origin of fundamentalist
From fundamental + -ist, after a book series called “The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth“ (1910).
Words formed from fundamentalist
Phrases with fundamentalist
Questions about fundamentalist
- What does fundamentalist mean?
- Fundamentalist means one who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.
- What is fundamentalist in Tamil?
- Fundamentalist in Tamil is அடிப்படைவாதி. See Fundamentalist meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fundamentalist?
- Fundamentalist is a noun.
- What is the plural of fundamentalist?
- The plural of fundamentalist is fundamentalists.
Words near fundamentalist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fundamentalist (page history and authors); fundamentalist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fundamentalist (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); بنیاد پرست (Urdu) (page history and authors); fundamentalist (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fundamentalist (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fundamentalist (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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