SUBVERSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subversive mean? 

• SUBVERSIVE (noun)
  The noun SUBVERSIVE has 1 sense:

1. a radical supporter of political or social revolution

  Familiarity information: SUBVERSIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• SUBVERSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective SUBVERSIVE has 1 sense:

1. in opposition to a civil authority or government

  Familiarity information: SUBVERSIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBVERSIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radical supporter of political or social revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

revolutionary; revolutionist; subversive; subverter

Hypernyms ("subversive" is a kind of...):

radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subversive"):

dynamiter; dynamitist (a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause)

Girondin; Girondist (a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins)

freedom fighter; insurgent; insurrectionist; rebel (a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions))

counter-revolutionist; counterrevolutionary; counterrevolutionist (a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution)

Instance hyponyms:

Chou En-lai; Zhou En-lai (Chinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976))

Emiliano Zapata; Zapata (Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919))

Doroteo Arango; Francisco Villa; Pancho Villa; Villa (Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923))

Leon Trotsky; Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Trotsky (Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940))

Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre; Robespierre (French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794))

Comte de Mirabeau; Honore-Gabriel Victor Riqueti; Mirabeau (French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791))

Karl Marx; Marx (founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883))

Jose Julian Marti; Marti (Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895))

Jean Paul Marat; Marat (French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793))

Mao; Mao Tsetung; Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader (1893-1976))

Che Guevara; Ernesto Guevara; Guevara (an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution; active in other Latin American countries; was captured and executed by the Bolivian army (1928-1967))

Danton; Georges Jacques Danton (French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794))

Charlotte Corday; Corday; Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont (French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793))

Derivation:

subversive (in opposition to a civil authority or government)

• SUBVERSIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In opposition to a civil authority or government

Synonyms:

insurgent; seditious; subversive

Similar:

disloyal (deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle)

Derivation:

subversive (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)

subversiveness (disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior)

subvert (cause the downfall of; of rulers)