All insurrectionary synonyms
in·sur·rec·tion·ar·y
I i noun insurrectionary
- agitator — If you describe someone involved in politics as an agitator, you disapprove of them because of the trouble they cause in organizing campaigns and protests.
- anarchist — An anarchist is a person who believes in anarchism.
- antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
- apostate — An apostate is someone who has abandoned their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- demagogue — If you say that someone such as a politician is a demagogue you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- deserter — A deserter is someone who leaves their job in the armed forces without permission.
- dissenter — a person who dissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion.
- guerrilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- heretic — a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.
- iconoclast — a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.
- independent — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
- individualist — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- innovator — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- insurgent — a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
- insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- mutineer — a person who mutinies.
- nihilist — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
- recreant — cowardly or craven.
- renegade — a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
- resistance — the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
- schismatic — Also, schismatical. of, relating to, or of the nature of schism; guilty of schism.
- separatist — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- traitor — a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.
- turncoat — a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.
- frondeur — a rebel; rioter.
- overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
- revolt — to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
- rioter — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- secessionist — a person who secedes, advocates secession, or claims secession as a constitutional right.
- seditionist — of or relating to sedition; seditious.
- subvert — to overthrow (something established or existing).
- rebel — a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country.
- experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
- experimenter — A person who experiments.
adjective insurrectionary
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- anarchic — If you describe someone or something as anarchic, you disapprove of them because they do not recognize or obey any rules or laws.
- leftist — a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views.
- perversive — tending to pervert.
- rebellious — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- riotous — (of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- anarchistic — An anarchistic person believes in anarchism. Anarchistic activity or literature promotes anarchism.
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- radical — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.