Synonyms for obscurantist

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : uh b-skyoo r-uh n-tiz-uh m, ob-skyoo-ran-tiz-uh m

Phonetic Transcription : əbˈskyʊər ənˌtɪz əm, ˌɒb skyʊˈræn tɪz əm

Top 10 synonyms for obscurantist

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Définition of obscurantist

Origin : 1841; see obscurantism + -ist.

As in reactionary : adj conservative
As in mossbacked : adj reactionary
As in reactionary : noun person who is politically conservative
As in ultraconservative : noun reactionary

Example sentences :

But with Pascal we get clean away from the poison-trail of the obscurantist.
Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys

This deficiency played into the hands of the reactionary and obscurantist.
Extract from : « Reconstruction in Philosophy » by John Dewey

He thinks that the motives of Shi Hwang-ti were obscurantist.
Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells

You are an enemy of enlightenment, you are an obscurantist, Briquet.
Extract from : « He Who Gets Slapped » by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev

For the obscurantist, belief is made easy, and the apologies for the Faith can be comparatively straightforward.
Extract from : « The Churches and Modern Thought » by Philip Vivian

He was not by temperament an obscurantist, and he began by being something of a political idealist.
Extract from : « Rome » by Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker

Puritanism might be narrow and bibliolatrous, but it was not obscurantist nor the enemy of science.
Extract from : « Oxford and Her Colleges » by Goldwin Smith

He was as intolerant as a priest, though he had no altar; as obscurantist as a magician, though he had no cave.
Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells

Their scepticism about Universals thus overleapt itself, and fell on the other side, into obscurantist ecclesiasticism.
Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells

Obscurantist, name given to an opponent to modern enlightenment as professed by the devotees of modern science and philosophy.
Extract from : « The Nuttall Encyclopaedia » by Edited by Rev. James Wood

Antonyms for obscurantist

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