ACTIVIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does activist mean? 

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

1. a militant reformer

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

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

1. advocating or engaged in activism

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTIVIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A militant reformer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

activist; militant

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

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

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

Black Muslim (an activist member of a largely American group of Blacks called the Nation of Islam)

Black Panther (a member of the Black Panthers political party)

Instance hyponyms:

Malcolm Little; Malcolm X (militant civil rights leader (1925-1965))

Derivation:

activism (a policy of taking direct action to achieve a political or social goal)

activist (advocating or engaged in activism)

• ACTIVIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advocating or engaged in activism

Synonyms:

activist; activistic

Similar:

active (disposed to take action or effectuate change)

Derivation:

activist (a militant reformer)