- a person whose opinions, especially about religion or politics, are extreme, and who may do things that are violent or illegal for what they believe
- left-wing/right-wing/political/religious extremists
- He was assassinated by extremists.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- left-wing
- right-wing
- radical
- …
- element
- group
- movement
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