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subversive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun subversive has 1 sense
- subversive(n = noun.person) revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter - a radical supporter of political or social revolution; Array has particulars: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist, dynamiter, dynamitist, girondin, girondist, freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel, charlotte corday, corday, marie anne charlotte corday d'armont, danton, georges jacques danton, che guevara, ernesto guevara, guevara, mao, mao tsetung, mao zedong, jean paul marat, marat, jose julian marti, marti, karl marx, marx, comte de mirabeau, honore-gabriel victor riqueti, mirabeau, maxmillien marie isidore de robespierre, robespierre, leon trotsky, lev davidovich bronstein, trotsky, doroteo arango, francisco villa, pancho villa, villa, emiliano zapata, zapata, chou en-lai, zhou en-lai
is a kind of radical
Derived form adjective subversive1
Adjective subversive has 1 sense
- subversive(s = adj.all) insurgent, seditious - in opposition to a civil authority or government; Array Derived forms noun subversive1, noun subversiveness1, verb subvert1
CIDE DICTIONARY
subversive, a. [Cf. F. subversif.].
Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. [1913 Webster]
"Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
subversive, adj. & n.
--adj. (of a person, organization, activity, etc.) seeking to subvert (esp. a government).
--n. a subversive person; a revolutionary.
--adj. (of a person, organization, activity, etc.) seeking to subvert (esp. a government).
--n. a subversive person; a revolutionary.
Derivative
subversion n. subversively adv. subversiveness n.
Etymology
med.L subversivus (as SUBVERT)
THESAURUS
subversive
Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trojan horse, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, agitator, altered, anarch, anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, baneful, better, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, changeable, changed, collaborationist, collaborator, consuming, consumptive, converted, criminal syndicalist, crypto, deadly, defector, degenerate, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, deviant, disastrous, dissident, divergent, doomful, extreme, extreme left-winger, extremist, extremistic, factious, fatal, fateful, fellow traveler, fifth column, fifth columnist, fraternizer, fratricidal, frondeur, improved, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, internecine, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, malcontent, maverick, metamorphosed, metastasized, mild radical, mildly radical, modified, mutant, mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, nihilist, nihilistic, nonconformist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, qualified, quisling, radical, ravaging, rebel, rebellious, rebuilt, red, reformed, renewed, revived, revolter, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, rioter, riotous, ruining, ruinous, saboteur, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, security risk, seditionary, seditious, self-destructive, subversionary, suicidal, syndicalist, terrorist, traitor, traitorous, transformed, translated, transmuted, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, turbulent, ultra, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, underground, unmitigated, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering, worse, yippieROGET THESAURUS
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Destruction
N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.
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