subversive

Intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase.

Adjective

  1. Intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase.
    • subversive influence
    • subversive message
    • subversive government

Origin

See subvert and -ive.

Forms

more subversive most subversive

Synonyms

insurgent seditious

Related

subversion superversive

Derived

antisubversive countersubversive immunosubversive nonsubversive subversive basics subversively subversiveness subversivism unsubversive

Noun

  1. A radical supporter of political or social revolution.
  2. One who subverts, a saboteur, provocateur, or propagandist.

Forms

subversives

Synonyms

revolutionist revolutionary subverter

Derived

antisubversive countersubversive nonsubversive