| activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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| (noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: militant |
| archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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| atavist | (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: throwback |
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| bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| nativist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativistic |
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| (adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativistic |
| (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to nativism | - |
| negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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| (noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
| positivist | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivistic |
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| (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| subjectivist | (noun) a person who subscribes to subjectivism | - |
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