maximalist
Speech parts
1. maximalist - Noun
2. maximalist - Adjective
Meaning
(art, music, literature) Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less.
(politics, diplomacy) Aggressive, expansive.
(religion) Relating to religious or Biblical maximalism.
(historical, communism) Relating to far-left communism.
(art, literature, music) A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.
(politics) A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy.
(religion) A proponent of Biblical maximalism, one who affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives.
(historical, communism, obsolete, capitalized) A Bolshevik.
(historical) A member of a radical wing split from the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1906.
(historical) A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy.
Maximalist (comparative more Maximalist, superlative most Maximalist)
Alternative letter-case form of maximalist
Maximalist (plural Maximalists)
Alternative letter-case form of maximalist
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Examples
Even Attorney General William P. Barr, who embraces a maximalist ideology of executive power, testified during his confirmation hearing that if a president pardoned someone in exchange for a promise not to incriminate him, “that would be a crime.”
Price shows an uncharacteristic flash of power on “Hey Child,” a maximalist country-soul tune packed full of keyboards, buttery guitar licks and rich backing vocals from the Nashville Friends Gospel Choir.
The models, who were all part of Gucci’s design team, appeared on popup screens in clothes that were classic Michele: floral, maximalist and heavy with pop-culture nous.
Stefani Germanotta’s debut album brought maximalist pop back to the forefront of the late-Noughties music scene, in an industry that was desperately lacking in pop divas.
A purely maximalist approach is not statesmanship — and it will not only cost Nevada financially, it will cost us more lives.
First and foremost, the war did not end with a maximalist victory or total defeat of one side against the other.