ideologue

noun

ideo·​logue ˈī-dē-ə-ˌlȯg How to pronounce ideologue (audio)
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variants or less commonly idealogue
1
: an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology
2
: an impractical idealist : theorist

Examples of ideologue in a Sentence

as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country
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Iraola, a manager of mystery Most iconic managers in world football tend to come across as ideologues. Brett Koremenos, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 Those employees, all of whom previously had senior jobs at tech giants like Amazon (AMZN) or Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google, warned that the people Musk hired were political ideologues who lacked the necessary skills to carry out Musk’s vision, The Associated Press reported. William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2025 Our service members won't be activists and ideologues. CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025 This lack of familiarity enables idealogues to deploy distortions to achieve their agendas of exclusion. Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ideologue

Word History

Etymology

French idéologue, back-formation from idéologie

First Known Use

1815, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of ideologue was in 1815

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“Ideologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideologue. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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