Insurgent

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Meaning of Insurgent

One who participates in an insurrection.

Insurgent Alternative Definition

One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that “rebel” is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities. The colonists who opposed the tyranny of the English government were insurgents, not rebels.

Synonyms of Insurgent

noun

  • agitator
  • anarchist
  • demagogue
  • disrupter
  • insubordinate
  • insurrectionary
  • insurrectionist
  • mutineer
  • nihilist
  • radical
  • rebel
  • rebellis
  • reformer
  • renegade
  • revolter
  • revolutionary
  • revolutionist
  • rioter
  • seditionary
  • subverter
  • traitor

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