Environmentalist

Quick meaning: Environmentalist is a noun meaning Of, or relating to environmentalism.

Meaning

Of, or relating to environmentalism.

More Meanings

1. One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.
2. (anthropology, social sciences) One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.

Example Sentences

This tension is familiar in the lives of most environmentalists. Some own cars; some still eat meat.

He [King Charles] is a committed environmentalist at a point when the government is full of climate change deniers.

The environmentalist explanation would be that tropical environment retards or depresses culture through its physiological effect on the human organism.

The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast.

Word Forms

• environmentalists

Synonyms for environmentalist

Depending on context, synonyms include ecologist, eco-warrior, greenie, conservationist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conservationist, environmental, ecologist, ecological, green, anti-environmentalist.

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