reformer

Noun

Meaning

One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.

One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

crusader reformist meliorist social reformer pol partizan liberal libertarian firebrand radical fighter revolutionary progressive champion advocate

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Antonyms

traditionalist carper challenger cynic conservative moderate

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Hypernyms

apparatus eristic setup controversialist disputant

Hyponyms

chartist DRY rebel militant utopian insurgent

Phrases with the word

protestant reformer spelling reformer idealistic reformer

Anagrams

rereform

Examples

The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world. George Bernard Shaw

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. Walter Lippmann

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. Ernestine Rose

Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor. Elbert Hubbard

The reformer Yeltsin represents the tendency which wants to reduce the gigantic state apparatus. Consequently he follows in Trotsky's footsteps. Ernest Mandel

I am not a copyright reformer. I am a copyright abolitionist. Nina Paley

Close letter words and terms

reformed prostitute reformed theology reformee reformeress reforming reformingly