Meaning

6 senses
  1. A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.

  2. A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy.

  3. A proponent of Biblical maximalism, one who affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives.

  4. (historical)A member of a radical wing split from the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1906.

  5. (historical)A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy.

  6. (capitalized, historical, obsolete)A Bolshevik.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From maximal + -ist, by analogy with minimalist.

From maximal + -ist, by analogy with minimalist.

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Forms

plural: maximalists

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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