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seditious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective seditious has 2 senses
- seditious(s = adj.all) incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing - arousing to action or rebellion; Array Derived form noun sedition1
- seditious(s = adj.all) insurgent, subversive - in opposition to a civil authority or government; Array Derived form noun sedition1
CIDE DICTIONARY
seditious, a. [L. seditiosus: cf. F. séditieux.].
- Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words. [1913 Webster]
- Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
seditious
alienated, breakaway, contumacious, disaffected, disloyal, dissident, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithless, inflammatory, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, lawless, mutineering, mutinous, perfidious, rabble-rousing, rebel, rebellious, refractory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, subversive, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, turbulent, turncoat, unfaithful, violent
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