NEOPHILIAC Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

neophiliac

noun

Definition of neophiliac

as in extremist

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Noun

The last of them, a 12-year campaign against ISIS, sought to dismantle the Sunni extremist group that carved out territory across Syria and Iraq in the mid-2010s.

— Sarah Tamimi, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
The caption on the video claims that a group of Muslim extremists kidnapped and beheaded a Christian man for refusing to convert to Islam.

— Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Sep. 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

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Exiled revolutionaries needed somewhere to go, as did poorer residents who were hoping the revolution would improve conditions.

— Blaise Mesa, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2026
The series follows an exiled revolutionary forced to return to Uruguay and confront his past.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of revolutionary

Noun

Dohrn, who is the son of the longtime radicals Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers and who has taught for several years at Northwestern University, certainly has enjoyed a catbird’s seat on the culture wars of academia.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
Some of our friends, who’d assumed that abstract art was all that any longer really mattered, were wondering if Jack’s nudes were radical or retro or if retro was the new radical.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 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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