Agitator synonyms

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instigator
A person who intentionally incites or starts something, especially one that starts trouble.
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propagandist
A person who disseminates propaganda. [from 18th c.]
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ringleader
A person who leads others, especially in illicit or informal activities.
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zealous advocate
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firebrand
A person who stirs up trouble or kindles a revolt.
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incendiary
A bomb or combination of chemicals used to start a fire.
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agent provocateur (both French)
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conservative (related)
A conservative is defined as someone in a political party that opposes big government and supports traditional family structures.
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inciter
One who incites.
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disrupter
Someone or something that disrupts.
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fighter
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is that of shooting down other aircraft. Some of these (Fighter-Attack or Attack aircraft) also have a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
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soapbox orator
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active supporter
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active partisan
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ardent champion
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exciter of public debate
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agent
An agent is defined as someone or something that makes something happen.
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provocateur
A writer, artist, political activist, etc. whose works, ideas, or activities are regarded as a threat to accepted values or practices
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organizer
(Medicine) A group of cells that, together with the evocator, control differentiation in the embryo; the inductor
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sans-culotte
A radical republican from the urban lower and artisanal classes during the French Revolution.
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dissident
A dissident person; dissenter
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fifth-columnist
Someone who belongs to a group that secretly undermines another organization
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radical (related)
(Historical: 19th-century England) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
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fomenter
One who incites or promotes.
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calm (related)
Calm is defined as a state of peace and tranquility.
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change (related)
Something different; variety:
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politics (related)
Political life:
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insurrecto
(US) A rebel, especially in Cuba or the Philippines during American military involvement there around the start of the 20th century.
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jiggler
Someone or something that jiggles.
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vibrator
A vibrating electrical device used in massage or for sexual stimulation
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demagogue (related)
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sympathiser (related)
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revolutionist (related)
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pamphleteer (related)
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reformer
(Chemical engineering, fuel cells) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases.
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revolutionary
A revolutionary is defined as a person who supports political or social change.
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revisionist
A person who advocates a radically different theory or interpretation, as of particular historical events, from that which is generally accepted
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anarchist
The definition of an anarchist is a person who rebels against rules or any sort of authority.
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rabble-rouser
(Idiomatic) Someone or something that tends to inspire mobs; something controversial or provocative.
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dogmatist
One who expresses or sets forth dogma.
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malcontent
One who rebels against the established system:
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heretic
The definition of a heretic is a person who violates established rules and tenants of a religion, or is a person who has views that don't conform to the norm.
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rebel (related)
A Confederate soldier
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  • Nansen used all the arts of the agitator with extraordinary energy and success.

  • The strength of classical reminiscence and the instinct of liberty were reinforced by the support given to communal aspirations by the popular agitator and dangerous tribune, Arnold of Arnold of Brescia, whose theories arrived at an opportune Brescia.

  • "Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator," he said.

  • Up to 1870 he remained an agitator, but, after the liberation of Rome, seceded from the historic left, and became leader of the extreme left, a position held until his death on the 30th of April 1886.

  • In 1899 he qualified as a lawyer, and speedily became a prominent agitator on the extreme Left wing of the Socialist party.

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