Other forms: fundamentalists
A fundamentalist is somebody who holds strictly to the letter of a doctrine. A religious fundamentalist, fundamentalist views, market fundamentalists.
The word came from a specific American Protestant movement of the 1910s and has since been applied to every faith and to secular beliefs too. It is now used far more by opponents than by anybody about themselves.
1nounfundamentalistSomebody who holds strictly to the letter of a doctrine.
“The fundamentalist preacher insisted that every word of scripture was literally true.”
fundamentalist is a person.
From fundamental plus -ist, after a series of American pamphlets called The Fundamentals, published from 1910.
Latin
fundāmentālis
Middle English
foundamental,fundamental
English
fundamental
English, today
fundamentalist
Built from
From fundamental + ist, after a book series called “The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth“ (1910). fundamental comes from Middle English foundamental,fundamental, from Latin fundāmentālis, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰudʰmḗn. by surface analysis, fundament + -al.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA