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lunatic fringe
lunatic fringen. The fanatical, extremist, or irrational members of a society or group.lunatic fringe n the members of a society or group who adopt or support views regarded as extreme or fanatical lu′natic fringe′
n. members on the periphery of any group, as in politics or religion, who hold extreme or fanatical views. [1910–15] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | lunatic fringe - a political unit with extreme and fanatical viewspolitical entity, political unit - a unit with political responsibilities |
Translationslunatic fringe
lunatic fringeThe most extreme members or portion of a larger group of people. The group has widely been dismissed as the lunatic fringe of the religion, taking its most fundamentalist aspects and warping them into a cult-like ideology based on prejudice and hate. They're part of some lunatic fringe who believe that eating anything that dwells or grows above ground pollutes the body with toxins.See also: fringe, lunaticlunatic fringethe more extreme members of a group. Most of the members of that religious sect are quite reasonable, but Lisa belongs to the lunatic fringe. Many people try to avoid eating a lot of fat, but Mary is part of the lunatic fringe and will eat anything.See also: fringe, lunaticthe ˌlunatic ˈfringe (disapproving) members of an organization or group who are more extreme than the others; extreme groups: It’s the lunatic fringe of the Animal Liberation Front which smashes the windows of butchers’ shops, not ordinary members like us.The word lunatic means crazy. It comes from the Latin word luna, meaning ‘moon’, because people believed that the changes in the moon caused temporary madness.See also: fringe, lunaticlunatic fringe, theA minority group who have what others consider very extreme beliefs. The term was first used (and perhaps coined) by Theodore Roosevelt in History as Literature (1913): “There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.” At first used mainly for political extremists, the expression was later extended to other venues, as by Diana Ramsay in Deadly Discretion (1973): “Antique shops were magnets for the lunatic fringe.”See also: lunaticlunatic fringe
lunatic fringe[IBM] Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1versions of software.lunatic fringe
Words related to lunatic fringenoun a political unit with extreme and fanatical viewsRelated Words- political entity
- political unit
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