'Nihilist' definitions:
Definition of 'nihilist'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief
noun
An advocate of anarchism [syn: anarchist, nihilist, syndicalist]
Definition of 'Nihilist'
From: GCIDE
- Nihilist \Ni"hil*ist\, n. [Cf. F. nihiliste. See Nihilism.]
- 1. One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Politics) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nihilist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- anarcho-syndicalist,
- animal,
- annihilator,
- anthropophagite,
- antinomian,
- arsonist,
- barbarian,
- beast,
- biblioclast,
- Bolshevik,
- bomber,
- brute,
- burner,
- calamity howler,
- cannibal,
- Cassandra,
- cynic,
- defeatist,
- demolisher,
- destroyer,
- dynamitard,
- dynamiter,
- Eeyore,
- exterminator,
- extreme left-winger,
- extremist,
- hun,
- hyena,
- iconoclast,
- idol breaker,
- idoloclast,
- Jacobin,
- killjoy,
- left-wing extremist,
- lunatic fringe,
- malist,
- man-eater,
- mild radical,
- mutineer,
- negativist,
- parlor Bolshevik,
- parlor pink,
- pessimist,
- pink,
- pinko,
- prophet of doom,
- radical,
- rebel,
- red,
- retreatist,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- ruiner,
- sans-culotte,
- savage,
- seek-sorrow,
- shark,
- subversive,
- syndicalist,
- terrorist,
- tiger,
- ultra,
- ultraist,
- vandal,
- wild man,
- Wobbly,
- worrywart,
- wrecker,
- yippie