obscurantist

Speech parts

1. obscurantist - Noun

2. obscurantist - Adjective

Meaning

Same as Obscurant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

orthodox tory right traditional accepted conservative moderate rigid reactionary traditionalist extremist purist bigoted bigot conformist
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Antonyms

left liberal lefty progressive leftist unconventional
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Hypernyms

cheat cheater deceiver slicker beguiler trickster

Anagrams

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Examples

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Guy Debord

Is [assassination] only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden? Enda Kenny

The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors. H. L. Mencken

He's a pre-Copernican obscurantist. Paul Keating

There is not only a growth of far-right thuggery, which conducts this violence, but also of obscurantist and irrational thinking. Source: Internet

The new production at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden would have justified this, because Vladimir Stoyanov creates the role of the darkling (obscurantist / reactionary) so gripping that he steals the show from the title character.” Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

obscurant obscurantic obscurantism obscurantistic obscurate obscuration