| Main Entry: | agitator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who disturbs, causes trouble |
Synonyms: |
adjy, advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fomenter, heretic, incendiary, inciter, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, troublemaker, wave maker, zealot |
| Main Entry: | left |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | politically radical |
Synonyms: |
left-wing, leftist, liberal, progressive, revolutionary, socialist |
Antonyms: |
right |
| Main Entry: | left-wing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberal |
Synonyms: |
communist, leftist, radical, socialist |
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deviating by extremes |
Synonyms: |
advanced, anarchistic, complete, entire, excessive, extremist, fanatical, far-out, freethinking, iconoclastic, immoderate, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, intransigent, lawless, leftist, militant, mutinous, nihilistic, progressive, rabid, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, severe, sweeping, thorough, ultra, ultraist, uncompromising, violent, way out |
Antonyms: |
conservative, moderate |
| 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, insurrectionist, left-winger, leftist, militant, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, objector, pacifist, progressive, rebel, reformer, renegade, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, secessionist, subversive, ultraist |
Antonyms: |
conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | left wing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or group favoring change |
Synonyms: |
left, left-winger, leftism, leftist, liberal, liberalism, on the left, progressive, progressiveness, progressivism, radical |
| Notes: | left wing is often considered radical or socialist, liberal or progressive - while right wing is conservative |
Antonyms: |
right wing |
| Main Entry: | inciter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitator |
Synonyms: |
adjy, advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fomenter, heretic, incendiary, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, troublemaker, wave maker, zealot |