subversive

Speech parts

1. subversive - Noun

2. subversive - Adjective

3. subversive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

insurgent seditious revolutionary revolutionist subverter firebrand extreme radical underground harmful rebel destructive rebellious disruptive inflammatory

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Antonyms

central medical conservative moderate loyal antagonist

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Hypernyms

radical

Hyponyms

rebel insurgent girondist insurrectionist dynamiter freedom fighter

Phrases with the word

new subversive funky subversive good subversive subversive unit

Examples

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. Henry Miller

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself. Herbert Marcuse

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. Edward Said

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority. Eric Idle

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things. Miloš Forman

Education is a subversive activity. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

subversion subversionary subversioning subversive activity subversive basics subversive unit