Definitions for: Subversive


[n] a radical supporter of political or social revolution
[adj] in opposition to a civil authority or government



Webster (1913) Definition: Sub*ver"sive, a. [Cf. F. subversif.]
Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.

Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design
of conversation. --Rogers.

Synonyms: disloyal, insurgent, revolutionary, revolutionist, seditious, subverter

See Also: Charlotte Corday, Che Guevara, Chou En-lai, Comte de Mirabeau, Corday, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist, Danton, Doroteo Arango, dynamiter, dynamitist, Emiliano Zapata, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Francisco Villa, freedom fighter, Georges Jacques Danton, Girondist, Guevara, Honore-Gabriel Victor Riqueti, insurgent, insurrectionist, Jean Paul Marat, Jose Julian Marti, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Mao, Mao Tsetung, Mao Zedong, Marat, Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont, Marti, Marx, Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, Mirabeau, Pancho Villa, radical, rebel, Robespierre, Trotsky, Villa, Zapata, Zhou En-lai

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