Synonyms for subversive
səbˈvɜr sɪvsub·ver·sive

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1. subversivenoun

   Synonyms:
   revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter, insurgent, seditious

2. subversiveadjective

   Intending to subvert, overturn or undermine a government or authority

   Synonyms:
   subverter, revolutionist, revolutionary, insurgent, seditious

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1. revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverteradjective

   a radical supporter of political or social revolution

   Synonyms:
   subverter, revolutionist, revolutionary

   Antonyms:
   loyal

2. insurgent, seditious, subversiveadjective

   in opposition to a civil authority or government

   Synonyms:
   instigative, seditious, rabble-rousing, inflammatory, insurgent, incitive, incendiary

   Antonyms:
   loyal

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1. subversiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   destructive, tending to the overthrow

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1. List of paraphrases for "subversive":

   subversion, sabotage, destructive, anti-state

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1. Chlo Sevigny:

   It was a subversive act, it was a risk. And I think it was a way of me staying outside the business in a weird way, but also doing what I want to do in the business.

2. Ibn-e-Safi:

   Man after the second half of the twentieth century is frustrated. You know that the foundation of all subversiveness is laid on frustration and this frustration keeps finding ways to subversive activities. And you also know that an uncert...ain present has made man pessimistic about future... therefore he runs after anything that glitters, be it fire

3. Chen Quanguo:

   Resolutely draw a clear line between the 14th Dalai Lama and firmly reject all subversive separatist activities, tibetan Buddhism is at its best period of development in history and religious circles and believers enjoy full religious freedom.

4. Livy:

   All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord.

5. Mike Vigil:

   The National Guard has been key to opening up the doors into Venezuela for Colombian drug trafficking organizations and subversive groups, they have transformed Venezuela into a massive pipeline for cocaine into the United States and Europe.