AGITATORS Synonyms
There are 14 hypernyms of the word agitators. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for AGITATORS
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activists | nounn | |||||||
noun • a militant reformer adjective satellite • advocating or engaged in activism | ||||||||
anarchists | nounn | |||||||
noun • an advocate of anarchism | ||||||||
campaigners | nounn | |||||||
noun • a politician who is running for public office | ||||||||
disruptors | nounn | |||||||
noun • Someone or something that disrupts. • An energy weapon in the form of a pistol. | ||||||||
dissenters | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who dissents from some established policy | ||||||||
firebrands | nounn | |||||||
noun • a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning • someone who deliberately foments trouble | ||||||||
instigators | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who deliberately foments trouble • a person who initiates a course of action | ||||||||
insurgents | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) • a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment adjective satellite • in opposition to a civil authority or government | ||||||||
organizers | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise • someone who enlists workers to join a union • a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. | ||||||||
protesters | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who dissents from some established policy • someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | ||||||||
provocateurs | nounn | |||||||
noun • a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | ||||||||
rebels | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) • `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms • someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action verb • take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance • break with established customs | ||||||||
revolutionaries | nounn | |||||||
adjective • of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn • relating to or having the nature of a revolution • advocating or engaged in revolution noun • a radical supporter of political or social revolution adjective satellite • markedly new or introducing radical change | ||||||||
troublemakers | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | ||||||||
fomenter | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • one who agitates; a political troublemaker |