literalistic
31evangelical — Synonyms and related words: Biblical, Christian, Gospel, Mosaic, New Testament, Old Testament, Sabbatarian, accepted, apocalyptic, apostolic, approved, authentic, authoritative, bigoted, canonical, conventional, correct, creedbound, customary,… …
32fundamentalist — Synonyms and related words: Orthodox Jew, Sabbatarian, Sunni Muslim, bigoted, bitter ender, canonist, conservative, creedbound, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, firm, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound …
33hidebound — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, conservative, constricted, conventional, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical,… …
34puristic — Synonyms and related words: Sabbatarian, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, creedbound, critical, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, dour, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, evangelical, exact, exacting, exquisite,… …
35puritanical — Synonyms and related words: Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Victorian, Waldensian, abstinent, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, creedbound, critical, demure,… …
36staunch — Synonyms and related words: Sabbatarian, airtight, ardent, bigoted, calculable, close, committed, compact, consistent, constant, creedbound, dedicated, dependable, devoted, dogmatic, dustproof, dusttight, evangelical, faithful, faithworthy, fast …
37straitlaced — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist …
38strict — Synonyms and related words: Sabbatarian, Spartan, Spartanic, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accurate, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, aspersion, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, bossy,… …
39IBN TMART, Muhammad — (died 1130) Islamic REFORMER who opposed literalistic interpretations of the QUR N and all FORMS of ANTHROPOMORPHISM. He declared himself MAHDI in the Maghreb and with ABD al MU MIN led a JIHD against infidels and other MUSLIMS he considered… …
40literalist — 1640s, from LITERAL (Cf. literal) + IST (Cf. ist). Related: Literalistic …
