Synonyms for terrorist
ter·ror·ist

Princeton's WordNet

1. terroristnoun

   a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

Matched Categories

1. • Radical
   • Terrorism

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1. List of paraphrases for "terrorist":

   terrorists, terrorism, terror, terroristic

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1. George Walker Bush:

   Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

2. Alan Mendoza:

   This is not a new immigrant family. These parents have these roots. And by all accounts, the rest of the family condemned this incident and don’t agree with what their brother did, the reality is there are 40,000 people on the terrorist watch list. Now to monitor all those people 24/7 would cost an extreme amount of money. So, it’s just not practical to monitor that number of people in the way.

3. Jay Garner:

   I recommend we do all we can to keep refugees in their general geographic areas and give them the quality of life they need, we can do an awful lot by order of magnitude and can also eliminate the possibility -- and actuality -- of ISIS and other terrorist groups embedding themselves within the refugee population if we create these safe zones.

4. Interior Security Minister Gilad Erdan:

   What the security cabinet told the security services yesterday was that any method is kosher, an interrogation method like tiltul, or anything that is done when it comes to Palestinian terrorists - the same thing should be done when it comes to a Jewish terrorist.

5. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:

   Terrorist organizations overseas have targeted your communities. They seek to pull your youth into the pit of violent extremism. Help us to help you stop this.