Adjective modifier

• Italian: There were many indications that the French centrists would repeat the course of the Italian Maximalists, that is, split with us.

Modifies a noun

• view: President Bush's State of the Union Address definitely endorsed a maximalist view of American war aims.

• version: There is a minimalist and a maximalist version of this theory.

• approach: There are minimalist and maximalist approaches to provisional application.