All revisionist synonyms
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R r adjective revisionist
- debunking — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- modernizing — Present participle of modernize.
- dissenting — to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
- dissentive — (obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent.
- infidel — Religion. a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, especially a Muslim. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kafir (def 2).
- demystifying — Present participle of demystify.
- misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
- modernising — Present participle of modernise.
- apostate — An apostate is someone who has abandoned their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
noun revisionist
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- fomenter — One who incites or promotes.
- 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.
- dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- mover — a person or thing that moves.
- inciter — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- leftist — a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views.
adj revisionist
- deconstructionist — a philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and especially applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or identification because words essentially only refer to other words and therefore a reader must approach a text by eliminating any metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions through an active role of defining meaning, sometimes by a reliance on new word construction, etymology, puns, and other word play.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- freethinking — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
- demythifying — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.