neophiliac

noun

Definition of neophiliacnext
as in extremist

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  1. liberal
  2. revolutionary
  3. radical
  4. revolutionist
Noun
  • Park was eventually removed from office and arrested in 2017, and the liberals easily won the presidency in a by-election as conservatives remained in disarray.
    Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The court’s liberals, meanwhile, sympathized with the Biden administration’s citation of major medical organizations that consider gender-affirming care safe and medically necessary.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of liberal
Noun
  • In 1793, French revolutionaries executed their king, Louis XVI, and his wife, Marie Antoinette, unleashing a wave of political instability that threatened the whole of Europe.
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of revolutionary
Noun
  • Obama ended up funding and arming the Syrian opposition so feebly it was slaughtered and – when its extremists joined up with radicals from Iraq’s long-running insurgency against the US occupation – metastasized into ISIS.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But that’s pretty typical of these radicals lying and gaslighting to scare voters into voting for them.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of radical
Noun
  • And many revolutionists think that new equipment has changed the patterns of advance and retreat in Ukraine relative to historical experience.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023
  • As the head of China’s Nationalist government, Chiang and his party were trying to establish control in a nation divided among revolutionists, nationalists, Indigenous warlords, and a developing communist army and government.
    Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
Definition of revolutionist
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