Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who stubbornly adheres to outmoded or discredited ideas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
believes oradvocates the theory that the earth is flat. - noun idiomatic, by extension A person who believes or advocates an
outlandish ,discredited theory; a person whorefuses toacknowledge the truth despiteoverwhelming evidence .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We have yet to determine if anyone in the Conservative fold is a flat-earther or a disbeliever in the germ theory of disease, but at this point who would be surprised?
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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By the way, Gore likes to suggest that anyone who doesn't agree with him is a flat-earther.
More Man Made Climate Change scaremongering Not a sheep 2009
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The world thinks your a right-wing nut job already so there is no sense giving them any more ammo by going to a "Values Voters" conference made up flat-earther, white evangelical crazies.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry pulled out of conservative straw poll 2009
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Indeed, to stand up for mind-body dualism in an academic setting today is to look as foolish and naive as a flat-earther.
Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011
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By the way, Gore likes to suggest that anyone who doesn't agree with him is a flat-earther.
More Man Made Climate Change scaremongering Not a sheep 2009
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Shorter Paulie Carbone: Anyone who disagrees with me about global warming is a flat-earther and a creationist.
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Who will grab the GOP's nomination: the dog-torturing goof, or the flat-earther babblehead?
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Indeed, to stand up for mind-body dualism in an academic setting today is to look as foolish and naive as a flat-earther.
Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011
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In the 21st Century, the term “flat-earther” is used to describe someone who is spectacularly – and seemingly wilfully – ignorant.
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Ed Scott may be primaried by a flat-earther, Brian McNeill writes in the Daily Progress.
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