Usually means: Challenging authority or established norms.
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  1. subversive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subversive: Merriam-Webster
  3. subversive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subversive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subversive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subversive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subversive, subversive: Wordnik
  8. subversive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subversive: Wiktionary
  10. subversive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subversive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subversive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subversive: Dictionary.com
  14. subversive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Subversive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Subversive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. subversive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. subversive: Rhymezone
  19. subversive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. subversive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. subversive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. subversive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. subversive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subversive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. subversive: Legal dictionary

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  1. subversive: Encyclopedia

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  1. Subversive: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase.
▸ noun:  A radical supporter of political or social revolution.
▸ noun:  One who subverts, a saboteur, provocateur, or propagandist.

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insurgent, seditious, revolutionist, revolutionary, subverter, disloyal, eversive, sublative, corrosive, abrogative, more...

Opposite:
conformist, conventional, orthodox, mainstream

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anarchist, revolutionary, more...

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subversive activities, subversive activity, Subversive affirmation, opposite of subversive, subversive art movement, more...

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Similar:
insurgent, seditious, revolutionist, revolutionary, subverter, disloyal, eversive, sublative, corrosive, abrogative, more...

Opposite:
conformist, conventional, orthodox, mainstream

Types:
anarchist, revolutionary, more...

Phrases:
subversive activities, subversive activity, Subversive affirmation, opposite of subversive, subversive art movement, more...

Colors:
    black,     crimson,     deep purple,     dark green,     charcoal, more...



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