extremistnoun [ C ]
uk/ɪkˈstriː.mɪst/us/ɪkˈstriː.mɪst/C2 someone who has beliefs that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable:
a group of extremists (= people with extreme opinions)
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Unsuitable and unacceptable
- amiss
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond
- beyond the pale idiom
- delegitimize
- grain
- improper
- incorrect
- indecent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- infra dig
- offend
- offend against sth
- raffish
- room
- square peg (in a round hole) idiom
- that will never do! idiom
- unfit
- vulgar
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extremist
adjective ukus
extremist tendencies