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Antonyms for reformer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ri-fawr-mer |
| Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈfɔr mər |
Definition of reformer
Origin :- 1540s, agent noun from reform (v.).
- As in radical : noun person who advocates significant, often extreme change
- As in inciter : noun agitator
- As in agitator : noun person who disturbs, causes trouble
- What use would it be then to become the great schismatic, the reformer who was awaited?
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- Of all the dangers that threaten the path of the reformer that of injustice is the greatest.
- Extract from : « Morals in Trade and Commerce » by Frank B. Anderson
- I've been reading his 'Traveling with a Reformer,' in which he abuses our road.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Every reformer the world has ever seen has had a similar experience.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- Herein, then, lies the secret of the success of the reformer.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
- What answer should the reformer give to so pressing an invitation?
- Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird
- It was as a reformer that he had been elected two years before.
- Extract from : « Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York » by Lemuel Ely Quigg
- That speck there is a reformer, just arranging the lever with which he is to move the world.
- Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell
- Zoroaster was not their founder, but was their reformer, and the purifier of their doctrines.
- Extract from : « Mysticism and its Results » by John Delafield
- It often happens that the reformer reaps not the benefit of the reform he introduces.
- Extract from : « No Animal Food » by Rupert H. Wheldon
Synonyms for reformer
- adjy
- advocate
- agent
- agitator
- anarchist
- avant-garde
- champion
- demagogue
- disrupter
- dissident
- dogmatist
- extremist
- fanatic
- fighter
- firebrand
- fomenter
- freethinker
- heretic
- iconoclast
- incendiary
- inciter
- instigator
- insurgent
- insurrectionist
- left-winger
- leftist
- malcontent
- militant
- mover
- mutineer
- nihilist
- nonconformist
- objector
- pacifist
- partisan
- progressive
- propagandist
- provocateur
- pusher
- rabble-rouser
- radical
- reactionary
- rebel
- reformer
- renegade
- revisionist
- revolter
- revolutionary
- ringleader
- rioter
- secessionist
- sparkplug
- subversive
- troublemaker
- ultraist
- wave maker
- zealot
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