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nihilist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nihilist has 2 senses
- nihilist(n = noun.person) Array - someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief; Array is a kind of nonreligious person
- nihilist(n = noun.person) anarchist, syndicalist - an advocate of anarchism; Array is a kind of radical
Derived forms noun nihilism1, noun nihilism3
has particulars: bakunin, mikhail aleksandrovich bakunin, mikhail bakunin, emma goldman, goldman, kropotkin, prince peter kropotkin, pyotr alexeyevich kropotkin, nicola sacco, sacco, benjamin ricketson tucker, tucker, bartolomeo vanzetti, vanzetti
Derived forms noun nihilism1, noun nihilism3
CIDE DICTIONARY
nihilist, n. [Cf. F. nihiliste. See Nihilism.].
- One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist. [1913 Webster]
- A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions. [1913 Webster]
DEVIL DICTIONARY
nihilist
n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.THESAURUS
nihilist
Bolshevik, Cassandra, Eeyore, Jacobin, Wobbly, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, antinomian, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, calamity howler, cannibal, cynic, defeatist, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, extreme left-winger, extremist, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, killjoy, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, malist, man-eater, mild radical, mutineer, negativist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pessimist, pink, pinko, prophet of doom, radical, rebel, red, retreatist, revolutionary, revolutionist, ruiner, sans-culotte, savage, seek-sorrow, shark, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, ultra, ultraist, vandal, wild man, worrywart, wrecker, yippieROGET THESAURUS
nihilist
Destroyer
N destroyer &c (destroy), cankerworm, assassin, executioner, biblioclast, eidoloclast, iconoclast, idoloclast, nihilist.Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.
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