anarchist
/ˈanəkɪst
/noun
A person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy.They were made up of socialists, republicans, anarchists, revolutionary syndicalists and Catholics....
- There were four anarchists on the Military Revolutionary Committee which organised the insurrection in Petrograd.
- Simply put, it gets the public even more fearful of anarchy and anarchists.
Synonyms
nihilist, insurgent, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, terrorist, bioterrorist, narcoterrorist, ecoterrorist, cyberterrorist, agroterrorist, freedom fighter, resistance fighter, rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist, Bolshevik, mutineer
rare insurrectionist
French rare frondeur
adjective
Relating to or supporting anarchy or anarchists: an anarchist newspaper...
- He met Lenin (who was anxious to draw in anarchist support) and clearly felt some sympathy for the Bolshevik leader.
- Jean Vigo was born on 26 April 1905, the only child of anarchist activists.
- My editor would probably die to know she's hired a socialist with anarchist leanings.
Derivatives
anarchistic
/ adjective ...- There is an incipiently anarchistic and subversive element to his work.
- Port Huron marked a milestone in the search for a genuine American radicalism based on many traditions, but most of all an egalitarian, almost anarchistic belief in democracy.
- Liddy's philosophy is a strange mixture of an anarchistic hatred of Government in the abstract and a cult-like worship of government when it is in the hands of the right.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Greek anarkhos 'without a chief' (see anarchy) + -ist; later influenced by French anarchiste.
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