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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitating person |
| Synonyms: | agitator, fanatic, firebrand, fomenter, haranger, hothead, incendiary, inciter, inflamer, instigator, politician, rabble-rouser, radical, rebel, revolutionary, soapbox orator, troublemaker |
| Main Entry: | incendiary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who causes fire, trouble |
| Synonyms: | agitator, arsonist, criminal, demagogue, demonstrator, firebrand, insurgent, pyromaniac, rabble-rouser, rebel, revolutionary, rioter |
| Main Entry: | rebel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not obey |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, disectarian, dissenter, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, insurrectionary, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrower, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter, traitor, turncoat |
| Notes: | to revolt is to refuse to obey the constraints imposed by another; to rebel is to attempt to replace those constraints by a set of one's own |
| Main Entry: | rabble-rouser |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passionate orator |
| Synonyms: | agitator, demagogue, firebrand, incendiary |
| Main Entry: | inciter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitator |
| Synonyms: | adjy, advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fomenter, heretic, incendiary, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, troublemaker, wave maker, zealot |
| Main Entry: | insurrectionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rebel |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, disectarian, dissenter, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, insurrectionist, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrower, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter, traitor, turncoat |
| Main Entry: | insurrectionist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rebel |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, disectarian, dissenter, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, insurrectionary, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrower, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter, traitor, turncoat |
| Main Entry: | revolutionist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rebel |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, disectarian, dissenter, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrower, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter, traitor, turncoat |
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