NEOPHILIAC Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

neophiliac

noun

Definition of neophiliac

as in extremist

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Noun

Outraged Jewish groups are now demanding organizers answer for bankrolling violent extremists.

— Staff, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
The blueprint included the recruitment of mercenaries and exploiting the grievances of disaffected citizens, from religious fanatics and extremists to soccer fans.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of extremist

Noun

The move followed the ousting in a wider government reshuffle last week of tech-savvy reformist Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, which brought out into the open the deep divisions in the Ukrainian defense leadership.

— Reuters, NBC news, 22 July 2026
Pezeshkian, a reformist within Iran’s theocracy, is the highest-ranking official within Iran to reference the release of the funds held by Qatar.

— Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of reformist

Noun

Maher is a liberal who has become increasingly critical of both parties and the progressive left.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Collins has fired back by portraying Ossoff as an out-of-touch liberal who doesn't understand the struggles of working Georgians.

— AJC.com, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of liberal

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Danny Trejo has played a Mexican revolutionary, a Mexican cop, a Mexican cartel assassin and, of course, a Mexican ex-con who kills bad guys with a machete.

— Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
But, even then, American socialists walked a fine line—they were considered too radical for the mainstream and a mere bourgeois affectation by committed class revolutionaries.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of revolutionary

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Two common types of plastic — polyethylene and polypropylene, used widely to make food containers, packaging, milk jugs and bottle caps — produced the most hydroxyl radicals detected by the researchers.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
The riots and looting across France might have been supported by leftist radicals, but National Rally leader Marine Le Pen stands to be the greatest beneficiary when the dust eventually settles.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of radical

Noun

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
Many revolutionists see heavy tank casualties in Ukraine as the key indicator for the tank’s looming obsolescence in the face of newly lethal precision antitank weapons.

— Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2023

Definition of revolutionist

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