uskonkiihkoilija — meaning in English
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English meaning
- fundamentalist noun A person who insists on a strict, literal interpretation of a religion's core texts.
- zealot noun Someone so committed to a cause or belief that they pursue it with extreme, often unreasonable intensity.
Senses
uskonkiihkoilija is used for these senses in English:
- fundamentalist One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.
- fundamentalist (pejorative) A fundamentalist Christian.
- zealot One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.
fundamentalist — full definition
- noun A person who insists on a strict, literal interpretation of a religion's core texts.
- noun An investor who bases decisions on a company's underlying financial data rather than market trends.
zealot — full definition
- noun Someone so committed to a cause or belief that they pursue it with extreme, often unreasonable intensity.
- noun Historically, a member of a Jewish political movement in first-century Judea that violently resisted Roman rule.