"partisan" | Definition and Related Words

Adjective

Devoted to a cause or party (synset 300734175)
similar to:
- party-spirited - devoted to a political party
- tendencious, tendentious - having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
same as: partizan

Noun

A fervent and even militant proponent of something (synset 110421831)
is a type of: advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
subtypes:
- bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
- doctrinaire, dogmatist - a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
same as: drumbeater, zealot
An ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity (synset 110079390)
is a type of: admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter - a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
subtypes:
- addict, freak, junkie, junky, nut - someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- backslapper - someone who demonstrates enthusiastic or excessive cordiality
- balletomane - a ballet enthusiast
- fanatic, fiend - a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
- gadgeteer - a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets
- shutterbug - a photography enthusiast
- fan, rooter, sports fan - an enthusiastic devotee of sports
same as: enthusiast, partizan
A pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections;
16th and 17th centuries (synset 103899914)
is a type of: pike - medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet

same as: partizan