IDEOLOGUES Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

ideologues

noun

variants also idealogues

plural of ideologue

as in partisans

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

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as in dreamers

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

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Recent Examples of ideologues Apparently, ideologues who put their losing agenda above what’s best for the city’s residents. —

The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026 In the meantime, a group of ideologues inside the agency were elevated to the role of senior advisers in its top office. —

Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026 Young ideologues compete to prove their fealty to MAGA by engaging in a kind of transgressive one-upmanship. —

Laura K. Field, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026 Freed from the ideologues who have held them hostage, even most bureaucrats serving in the Islamic Republic today could rediscover the best of our history and reorient their efforts toward our nation’s improvement. —

Arash Azizi, Time, 3 Feb. 2026 Third parties, which are usually based on fringe views or a sense of grievance, are vehicles for ideologues, provocateurs and contrarians whose appeal is as limited as their problem-solving skills. —

Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025 All of Madrid’s eight Champions League trophies this century have been won by coaches renowned more as man-managers than tactical ideologues — two under Vicente del Bosque, three each with Zinedine Zidane and Ancelotti. —

Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025 The key point is that consumers should be able to decide for themselves what kind of bags or straws to use, not the government and ideologues who want to impose their preferences on everyone else. —

Daren Bakst, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2025 Joe Rogan visibly shocked by Charlie Kirk's death, warns of ideologues 'celebrating this'. —

FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Most typically vote like partisans, in favor of their preferred party.

— Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
As one Texas insider explained to me, Cornyn is the national candidate who isn’t exactly loved at home, while Paxton draws adoration from partisans at home who may show up to send a message that what’s happening in Washington is not to their tastes.

— Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Feb. 2026