partisan

n.强硬支持者(盲目的,偏见的,不理性的支持),

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
partisan (noun)
1.
a firm adherent to a , faction, cause, or person - party , especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance
2.
a) a member of a body of detached light troops making forays and harassing an enemy
b) a member of a guerrilla band operating within enemy lines follower
partisan (noun)
a weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries with long shaft and broad blade
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
partisan (adjective)
inclined to favor one side over another
SYNONYMS:
biased, one-sided, parti pris, partisan, prejudiced
RELATED WORDS:
hostile, inimical, jaundiced, unfriendly, unsympathetic; colored, distorted, misrepresented, shaded, warped; convinced, influenced, persuaded, predisposed, prepossessed, swayed; affected, concerned, interested
NEAR ANTONYMS:
open, open-minded, persuasible, receptive; honest, just, reasonable; bipartisan; autonomous, independent; aloof, detached, dispassionate, hardheaded, impersonal, unemotional; cold, distant, remote; apathetic, incurious, indifferent, unconcerned, uncurious, unenthusiastic, uninterested
disinterested, equal, equitable, evenhanded, fair, impartial, neutral, nonpartisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced
partisan (noun)
1.
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another
SYNONYMS:
acolyte, adherent, convert, disciple, epigone, liege man, partisan ( partizan), pupil, votarist, votary
RELATED WORDS:
apostle, missionary, proselytizer, soldier; faithful, loyalist; advocate, backer, champion, supporter; protégé, scholar, student; ideologist, ideologue ( idealogue), sectarian; admirer, cultist, devotee, enthusiast, fan, idolater ( idolator), worshipper ( worshiper), zealot; apparatchik, camp follower, flunky ( flunkey flunkie), hanger-on, henchman, lackey, lickspittle, minion, myrmidon, satellite, stooge, sycophant, toady, yes-man
NEAR ANTONYMS:
apostate, defector, renegade, traitor, turncoat
coryphaeus, leader
partisan (noun)
2.
one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause
SYNONYMS:
crusader, fanatic, ideologue ( idealogue), militant, partisan ( partizan), red hot, true believer
RELATED WORDS:
activist; dreamer, idealist, visionary; cultist, disciple, follower, hanger-on, idolizer, votary; addict, aficionado ( afficionado), buff, bug, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fancier, fiend, fool, freak, habitué ( habitue), head, hound, junkie ( junky), lover, maniac, maven ( mavin), nut, sucker; advocate, apostle, backer, champion, evangelist, patron, promoter, stalwart, supporter; booster, rooter, well-wisher; faddist
NEAR ANTONYMS:
dabbler, dilettante
nonmilitant
partisan (noun)
3.
one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices
SYNONYMS:
dogmatist, dogmatizer, partisan ( partizan), sectarian
RELATED WORDS:
doctrinaire, fanatic, purist; jingoist, nationalist; racialist, racist, supremacist; chauvinist, sexist
NEAR ANTONYMS:
freethinker, latitudinarian, liberal
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