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单词 ideologue
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ideologue

noun

ideo·​logue ˈī-dē-ə-ˌlȯg How to pronounce ideologue (audio)
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variants or less commonly idealogue
1
: an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology
2
: an impractical idealist : theorist

Synonyms

  • crusader
  • fanatic
  • militant
  • partisan
  • partizan
  • red hot
  • true believer
  • zealot
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Example Sentences

as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country
Recent Examples on the Web There is deep symbolism in the killing of Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon turned radical Islamic ideologue who was wanted by the US for years even before the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 1 Aug. 2022 Russian officials and public figures on Tuesday called for revenge for the death of Daria Dugina, the daughter of a far-right ideologue, in a car bombing earlier this week. James Marson, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022 The prominent far-right nationalist ideologue and putative Kremlin whisperer appeared to feature in videos uploaded to social media, his head in his hands, staring in disbelief at the smoldering wreckage on a street outside Moscow on Saturday night. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022 Greta Garbo plays a dour Bolshevik ideologue who falls prey to capitalist temptations in Paris. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 Critics see her as an intransigent ideologue whose free-market policies frayed social bonds and gutted the country's industrial communities. Jill Lawless, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022 Critics see her as an intransigent ideologue whose free-market policies frayed social bonds and gutted the country's industrial communities. Jill Lawless, ajc, 31 July 2022 But McCraney is a poet, not a moralistic ideologue or a political propagandist happy to play to the choir. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022 That, perhaps, will bring a final judgment on which Mr. Abe – the ideologue or the pragmatist – prevails. Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

French idéologue, back-formation from idéologie

First Known Use

1815, in the meaning defined at sense 2

ideologue

noun

variants also idealogue
1
as in partisan
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • partisan
  • activist
  • zealot
  • militant
  • fanatic
  • crusader
  • advocate
  • supporter
  • idealist
  • visionary
  • red hot
  • partizan
  • patron
  • true believer
  • dreamer
  • disciple
  • fan
  • head
  • maniac
  • follower
  • cultist
  • lover
  • enthusiast
  • votary
  • devotee
  • apostle
  • champion
  • aficionado
  • promoter
  • fool
  • evangelist
  • junkie
  • addict
  • nut
  • freak
  • hanger-on
  • sucker
  • fiend
  • junky
  • stalwart
  • hound
  • maven
  • backer
  • buff
  • faddist
  • afficionado
  • fancier
  • bug
  • idolizer
  • habitue
  • booster
  • habitué
  • mavin
  • rooter
  • well-wisher

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dilettante
  • dabbler
  • nonmilitant
2
as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • dreamer
  • idealizer
  • idealist
  • theorist
  • utopian
  • romanticist
  • romantic
  • visionary
  • reformer
  • optimist
  • sentimentalist
  • emotionalist
  • fantast
  • daydreamer
  • Don Quixote
  • thinker
  • perfectionist
  • doctrinaire
  • fantasizer
  • do-gooder
  • woolgatherer
  • Pollyanna
  • Micawber

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • pragmatist
  • realist
  • cynic
  • pessimist
  • defeatist
  • empiricist
  • hardnose
  • empiric
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