'Fabian' definitions:
Definition of 'Fabian'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to Fabianism; "the Fabian society"
adjective
Using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy"
noun
A member of the Fabian Society in Britain
Definition of 'Fabian'
From: GCIDE
- Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a society of socialists, organized in England in 1884 to spread socialistic principles gradually without violent agitation.
- The Fabian Society proposes then to conquer by delay; to carry its programme, not by a hasty rush, but through the slower, but, as it thinks, surer methods of patient discussion, exposition, and political action. --William Clarke. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Fabian'
From: GCIDE
- Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, a. [L. Fabianus, Fabius, belonging to Fabius.] Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest. [1913 Webster]
- Fabian policy, a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fabian'
From: GCIDE
- Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, n. A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'Fabian'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- collectivist,
- collectivistic,
- corrective,
- emendatory,
- extremist,
- Fabian socialist,
- Fourierist,
- Fourieristic,
- gradualistic,
- Marxist,
- meliorist,
- melioristic,
- Owenite,
- phalansterian,
- progressionist,
- progressist,
- progressive,
- progressivist,
- radical,
- reformational,
- reformative,
- reformatory,
- reformer,
- reformist,
- reformistic,
- revisional,
- revisionist,
- revisory,
- revolutionary,
- Saint-Simonian,
- socialist,
- socialistic,
- state socialist,
- utopian,
- utopian socialist,
- utopist