'Subversive' definitions:
Definition of 'subversive'
From: WordNet
adjective
noun
A radical supporter of political or social revolution [syn: revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter]
Definition of 'Subversive'
From: GCIDE
- Subversive \Sub*ver"sive\, a. [Cf. F. subversif.] Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. [1913 Webster]
- Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'subversive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitator,
- altered,
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- anarchistic,
- anarcho-syndicalist,
- baneful,
- better,
- Bolshevik,
- Bolshevist,
- Bolshie,
- bonnet rouge,
- brawler,
- breakaway,
- calamitous,
- Carbonarist,
- Carbonaro,
- Castroist,
- Castroite,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- changeable,
- changed,
- Charley,
- collaborationist,
- collaborator,
- Communist,
- Cong,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- converted,
- criminal syndicalist,
- crypto,
- deadly,
- defector,
- degenerate,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- deviant,
- disastrous,
- dissident,
- divergent,
- doomful,
- extreme,
- extreme left-winger,
- extremist,
- extremistic,
- factious,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fellow traveler,
- Fenian,
- fifth column,
- fifth columnist,
- fraternizer,
- fratricidal,
- frondeur,
- Guevarist,
- improved,
- insubordinate,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- internecine,
- Jacobin,
- left-wing extremist,
- Leninist,
- lunatic fringe,
- malcontent,
- Maoist,
- Marxist,
- Mau-Mau,
- maverick,
- metamorphosed,
- metastasized,
- mild radical,
- mildly radical,
- modified,
- mutant,
- mutineer,
- mutineering,
- mutinous,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- nonconformist,
- parlor Bolshevik,
- parlor pink,
- pink,
- pinko,
- Puritan,
- qualified,
- quisling,
- radical,
- ravaging,
- rebel,
- rebellious,
- rebuilt,
- Red,
- red,
- Red Republican,
- reformed,
- renewed,
- revived,
- revolter,
- revolutional,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionary junta,
- revolutioner,
- revolutionist,
- revolutionizer,
- rioter,
- riotous,
- Roundhead,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- saboteur,
- sans-culotte,
- sans-culottist,
- security risk,
- seditionary,
- seditious,
- self-destructive,
- Sinn Feiner,
- subversionary,
- suicidal,
- syndicalist,
- terrorist,
- traitor,
- traitorous,
- transformed,
- translated,
- transmuted,
- treacherous,
- treasonable,
- treasonous,
- Trojan horse,
- Trotskyist,
- Trotskyite,
- turbulent,
- ultra,
- ultraconservative,
- ultraist,
- ultraistic,
- underground,
- unmitigated,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- VC,
- Vietcong,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering,
- Wobbly,
- worse,
- Yankee,
- Yankee Doodle,
- yippie