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ideologue

UK/ˈaɪ.di.ə.lɒɡ/US/ˈɪ.di.ə.lɑɡ/
nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: ideologues

An ideologue is somebody rigidly devoted to a set of political ideas. Dismissed as an ideologue.

It is always an insult, and it accuses the person of preferring theory to evidence. An ideologue is what everybody calls somebody who will not compromise with them.

Definitions of ideologue

  1. 1nounideologueSomebody rigidly devoted to a set of political ideas.C2

    “The committee was captured by one ideologue and lost four years.”

ideologue is a person.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    idéologue

  2. English, today

    ideologue

Borrowed from French idéologue.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

ideologue in the wild

  • A Third Positionist ideologue, she espoused the establishment of an anarcho-syndicalist society composed of racially Aryan communities.

    Else Christensen

  • Members include Vlaams Blok ideologue Roeland Raes and Vlaams Belang politician Luc Vermeulen.

    Voorpost

  • Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term vatan (Fatherland).

    Mehmet Emin Yurdakul

  • Gabriele Adinolfi is an Italian far-right ideologue and essayist.

    Gabriele Adinolfi

  • Through his written work he was the chief ideologue of the Rexist movement.

    Jean Denis (politician)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.