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| Main Entry: | anarchist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who opposes the idea of government and laws |
| Synonyms: | agitator, insurgent, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, rebel, revolutionary, terrorist, insurrectionist, revolter |
| Main Entry: | agitator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who disturbs, causes trouble |
| Synonyms: | advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, dissident, fighter, firebrand*, heretic, incendiary, instigator, malcontent, partisan, propagandist, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, revolutionary, ringleader, troublemaker, zealot, adjy, disrupter, dogmatist, fomenter, inciter, leftist, mover, provocateur, pusher, reformer, revisionist, sparkplug, wave maker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insurgent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rebel |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, demonstrator, malcontent, mutineer, radical, revolutionary, anarch, frondeur, insurrectionist, resister, revolter, revolutionist, rioter |
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who advocates significant, often extreme change |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, avant-garde, extremist, fanatic, firebrand, freethinker, iconoclast, insurgent, militant, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, pacifist, progressive, rebel, renegade, revolutionary, subversive, insurrectionist, left-winger, leftist, objector, reformer, revolter, rioter, secessionist, ultraist |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | rebel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not obey |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, dissenter, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolutionary, traitor, turncoat, disectarian, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, insurrectionary, overthrower, revolter, revolutionist, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter |
| Notes: | to revolt is to refuse to obey the constraints imposed by another; to rebel is to attempt to replace those constraints by a set of one's own |
| Main Entry: | nihilist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skeptic |
| Synonyms: | anarchist, cynic, insurgent, radical, rebel, revolutionary |
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