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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fundamentalistadjective

    a supporter of fundamentalism

  2. fundamentalist, fundamentalisticadjective

    of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism

Wiktionary

  1. fundamentalistnoun

    One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.

  2. fundamentalistnoun

    A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician.

  3. fundamentalistnoun

    (Christian) Originally referred to an adherent of an American Christian movement that began as a response to the rejection of the accuracy of the Bible, the alleged deity of Christ, Christ's atonement for humanity, the virgin birth, and miracles. These points were first listed in a book series entitled "The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth" published in 1909 and affirmed by the PCUSA in its 1910 Minutes of the General Assembly.

  4. fundamentalistnoun

    A fundamentalist Christian (also fundie or fundy)

Wikipedia

  1. fundamentalist

    Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishing one's ingroup and outgroup, which leads to an emphasis on some conception of "purity", and a desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed. The term is usually used in the context of religion to indicate an unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs (the "fundamentals").The term "fundamentalism" is generally regarded by scholars of religion as referring to a largely modern religious phenomenon which, while itself a reinterpretation of religion as defined by the parameters of modernism, reifies religion in reaction against modernist, liberal and ecumenical tendencies developing in religion and society in general that it perceives to be foreign to a particular religious tradition. Depending upon the context, the label "fundamentalism" can be a pejorative rather than a neutral characterization, similar to the ways that calling political perspectives "right-wing" or "left-wing" can have negative connotations.

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  1. fundamentalist

    A fundamentalist is an individual who strictly adheres to and promotes the basic, traditional or orthodox principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, or certain set of beliefs. They generally reject any form of compromise, modern interpretations, or changes and tend to interpret their authoritative text, if any, literally.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fundamentalist in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fundamentalist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of fundamentalist in a Sentence

  1. Omar Mushaweh:

    The West describes the Brotherhood group as fundamentalist and religious, and some parties want to put them in the category of terrorism, the fact is that the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate Islamist movement that accepts political pluralism and receives great harm from terrorist movements. It is an anti-terrorist movement of all kinds, including against the state terrorism by Bashar al-Assad.

  2. Sound Choices Coalition:

    This is abhorrent to us, many polygamist victims and other Utahn's who recognize that religious polygamy, as practiced in Utah and around the country, is responsible for many serious human rights violations, most who are living in these fundamentalist polygamous groups and families, are treated as property, forced to work without pay, traded as daughters, coerced into having unwanted sex, and into giving birth to numerous children they can not care for.

  3. Dawna Ray Langford:

    What sets us apart from the fundamentalist groups is that we dont claim priesthood authority and prophets and apostles outside of the Mormon Church, we mainly believe the Mormon church is out of order and thats why were excommunicated.

  4. Pope Francis:

    I think that in nearly all religions there is a always a small fundamentalist group.

  5. Christina Marie Langford:

    I was born in Mexico, but mostly raised in the Christina Marie Langford, i was raised as a fundamentalist Mormon, not part of the church. I joined on my own along with a lot of my family about five years ago. The rest of my extended family was raised about the same as me, some fundamentalist, some are now LDS, depending on who you're talking with.

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