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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative [syn: centrist, middle-of- the-road] n
1: a person who takes a position in the political center [syn: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1872 1. often capitalized a member of a center party 2. a person who holds moderate views • centrism noun • centrist adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Polit. often derog. a person who holds moderate views. Derivatives: centrism n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(centrists) Centrist policies and parties are moderate rather than extreme. He had left the movement because it had abandoned its centrist policies. ADJ: usu ADJ n • A centrist is someone with centrist views. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Laodicean, apathetic, center, compromiser, conservative, even, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, impartial, independent, indifferent, middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-roader, midway, moderantist, moderate, moderationist, moderatist, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, on the fence, passive, third-force, third-world, uncommitted, uninvolved