'Seditious' definitions:
Definition of 'seditious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble- rousing, seditious]
adjective
In opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: insurgent, seditious, subversive]
Definition of 'Seditious'
From: GCIDE
- Seditious \Se*di"tious\, a.[L. seditiosus: cf. F. s['e]ditieux.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. [1913 Webster] -- {Se*di"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Se*di"tious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'seditious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alienated,
- breakaway,
- contumacious,
- disaffected,
- disloyal,
- dissident,
- extreme,
- extremistic,
- factious,
- faithless,
- inflammatory,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- lawless,
- mutineering,
- mutinous,
- perfidious,
- rabble-rousing,
- rebel,
- rebellious,
- refractory,
- revolutional,
- revolutionary,
- riotous,
- seditionary,
- subversive,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- treasonable,
- turbulent,
- turncoat,
- unfaithful,
- violent