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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun insurgent has 2 senses
- insurgent(n = noun.person) freedom fighter, insurrectionist, rebel - a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions); Array has particulars: mutineer, young turk, nat turner, turner, denmark vesey, vesey, sir william wallace, wallace
- insurgent(n = noun.person) guerilla, guerrilla, irregular - a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment; Array is a member of guerilla force, guerrilla force
is a kind of crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer, revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter
has particulars: maquis, maquisard, urban guerrilla
is a kind of warrior
Adjective insurgent has 1 sense
- insurgent(s = adj.all) seditious, subversive - in opposition to a civil authority or government; Array Derived form noun insurgency1
CIDE DICTIONARY
insurgent, a. [L. insurgens, p. pr. of insurgere to rise up; pref. in- in + surgere to rise. See Surge.].
Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. Motley. [1913 Webster]
insurgent, n. [Cf. F. insurgent.].
A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.
Syn. -- See Rebel.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
insurgent, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 rising in active revolt.
2 (of the sea etc.) rushing in.
--n. a rebel; a revolutionary.
--adj.
1 rising in active revolt.
2 (of the sea etc.) rushing in.
--n. a rebel; a revolutionary.
Derivative
insurgence n. insurgency n. (pl. -ies).
Etymology
F f. L insurgere insurrect- (as IN-(2), surgere rise)
THESAURUS
insurgent
agitator, anarch, anarchist, brawler, breakaway, contumacious, extreme, extremist, extremistic, factious, frondeur, insubordinate, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, malcontent, maverick, mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, nonconformist, rebel, rebellious, revolter, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, riotous, seditionary, seditious, subversive, traitor, traitorous, treasonable, turbulentROGET THESAURUS
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Disobedience
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion, disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.
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