EXTREMISTS Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

extremists

noun

plural of extremist

as in revolutionaries

a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government extremists wanted to do away with everything, even though they had no thought-out plan for what to do afterwards

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Recent Examples of extremists The Associated Press reported that Algerian authorities rejected a Vatican request for Leo to visit Médéa to pray at the Tibhirine monastery, the place where seven French Trappist monks were kidnapped and killed May 21, 1996, by Islamic extremists during the country’s civil war. —

Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2026 Modern extremists aren’t known for their love of Broadway, but a song about impressing a girl by killing a president takes on new meaning when sung from the lips of a social media loner. —

Charles Lewis Iii, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026 Violent extremists feasted on this great replacement propaganda, using it to justify terror attacks across the West. —

Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026 Keep the pressure on every single one of these extremists. —

Bart Jansen, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026 Yet Ali’s act does not only evoke terrorist incidents such as the Charlie Hebdo attack, perpetrated by Muslim extremists, just a few months prior to The Red Chador. —

H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 31 Mar. 2026 In 2022, two officers were shot dead by Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland state. —

CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026 Otherwise extremists win and America will lose. —

Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026 The TikTok account had all the hallmarks associated with nihilistic violent extremists. —

Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026

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These works follow aging revolutionaries who have given up the fight after being forced into hiding or choosing to raise a family; some have simply grown tired of the struggle.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
The idea that one generation could not determine the political future of the next was precisely what many revolutionaries, despite their internal differences, had fought against.

— Roxane Razavi, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026