'Terrorist' definitions:
Definition of 'terrorist'
(from WordNet)
noun
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
Definition of 'Terrorist'
From: GCIDE
- Terrorist \Ter"ror*ist\, n. [F. terroriste.]
- 1. One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who commits terrorism[2]. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'terrorist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alarmist,
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- annihilator,
- arsonist,
- assassin,
- beast,
- beldam,
- berserk,
- berserker,
- biblioclast,
- Bolshevik,
- Bolshevist,
- Bolshie,
- bomber,
- bonnet rouge,
- brute,
- burner,
- Carbonarist,
- Carbonaro,
- Castroist,
- Castroite,
- Charley,
- Communist,
- Cong,
- criminal,
- criminal syndicalist,
- demolisher,
- demon,
- desperado,
- destroyer,
- devil,
- dragon,
- dynamitard,
- dynamiter,
- exterminator,
- felon,
- Fenian,
- fiend,
- fire-eater,
- firebrand,
- fury,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- Guevarist,
- gunman,
- gunsel,
- hardnose,
- hell-raiser,
- hellcat,
- hellhound,
- hellion,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hothead,
- hotspur,
- hun,
- iconoclast,
- idol breaker,
- idoloclast,
- incendiary,
- insurgent,
- Jacobin,
- killer,
- Leninist,
- mad dog,
- madcap,
- Mafioso,
- Maoist,
- Marxist,
- Mau-Mau,
- monster,
- mugger,
- nihilist,
- Puritan,
- radical,
- rapist,
- rebel,
- red,
- Red,
- Red Republican,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionary junta,
- revolutioner,
- revolutionist,
- revolutionizer,
- Roundhead,
- ruiner,
- sans-culotte,
- sans-culottist,
- savage,
- scaremonger,
- she-wolf,
- Sinn Feiner,
- spitfire,
- subversive,
- syndicalist,
- termagant,
- terror,
- thug,
- tiger,
- tigress,
- tough,
- tough guy,
- Trotskyist,
- Trotskyite,
- ugly customer,
- vandal,
- VC,
- Vietcong,
- violent,
- virago,
- vixen,
- wild beast,
- witch,
- wolf,
- wrecker,
- Yankee,
- Yankee Doodle,
- Young Turk