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. Luz Palmas Zaldua:

   It determines not only that state terrorism in Argentina was an criminal conspiracy but that it was coordinated with other dictatorships, they got together to maximize efforts to persecute political opponents of each of the dictatorships, and to 'disappear' or eliminate those who were considered subversive.

2. King Salman:

   We will resolutely confront aggressive threats and subversive activities.

3. 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.

4. Lionel Trilling:

   Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

5. Adamo Macri:

   Speaking of poison, unlike processed food, which is bad to consume, art should be the polar opposite: it should be over-processed to the point of being dangerous. To be deemed subversive, and intriguing to the eye and intellect, it must induce some form and degree of disruption. In that perspective, art is always safe, despite of idiotic censorship, as long as you don't eat it.”