Antonyms for rioter
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : rahy-uht |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈraɪ ət |
- adherent
- ally
- bad
- boring
- common
- conservative
- depressing
- disagreeable
- dramatic
- dull
- grave
- laborious
- law
- logical
- loyalist
- melancholy
- moderate
- normal
- police
- reasonable
- repellent
- repulsive
- sad
- sensible
- serious
- solemn
- somber
- standard
- tiring
- tragic
- traumatic
- unaffecting
- unamusing
- unenjoyable
- unexciting
- unfunny
- unhappy
- uninteresting
- unpleasant
- unstimulating
- usual
- wise
Definition of rioter
Origin :- late 14c., "debauchee," from Old French riotour, from riote, (see riot (n.)). Meaning "one who takes part in a rising or public disturbance against authority" is from mid-15c.
- As in laughable : adj easily made fun of
- As in laughing : adj laughable
- As in droll : adj amusing, farcical
- As in entertaining : adj amusing, pleasing
- As in funny : adj comical, humorous
- As in hilarious : adj very funny
- As in incendiary : noun person who causes fire, trouble
- As in insurgent : noun rebel
- As in militant : noun person who fights, is aggressive
- As in punk : noun hoodlum
- As in radical : noun person who advocates significant, often extreme change
- As in rebel : noun person who does not obey
- As in ruffian : noun hoodlum
- As in thug : noun hoodlum
- As in insurrectionary : noun rebel
- As in insurrectionist : noun rebel
- As in revolutionist : noun rebel
- As in demonstrator : noun protester
- As in hood/hoodlum : noun gangster
- As in hooligan : noun hoodlum
- And as for drunkenness, I was never drunk in my life; nor, by my own leave, a rioter.
- Extract from : « Sir Ludar » by Talbot Baines Reed
- And the other is a rioter, wasting his substance, and dishonoring his name in a strange country.
- Extract from : « Merkland » by Mrs. Oliphant
- Hassard, "fet not hassard nor rioter" (IP,320,c); so in original.
- Extract from : « Early English Dramatists--Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others » by Various
- You see, the fist of the rioter has driven it home to me that I am a Jew.
- Extract from : « The White Terror and The Red » by Abraham Cahan
- The boy's white, set face, as he grasped the reins; and Rioter was off like lightning.
- Extract from : « Under the Mendips » by Emma Marshall
- "He's a bad fellow, that rioter," he said as they drove along.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. » by Various
- In this sense each citizen has the high responsibility of a rioter.
- Extract from : « What's Wrong With The World » by G.K. Chesterton
- Polignac is a rioter; Camille Desmoulins is one of the governing powers.
- Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo
- I wanted to end as I had begun, die as my father had died, as a rioter in a riot, as a barricader behind a barricade.
- Extract from : « Parisian Points of View » by Ludovic Halvy
- Instead of that, he became a rowdy and a rioter, spending his days and his nights in evil company and in dissipation.
- Extract from : « Stories Of Georgia » by Joel Chandler Harris
Synonyms for rioter
- absorbing
- absurd
- activist
- affecting
- agitator
- amusing
- anarch
- anarchist
- antagonist
- antic
- apostate
- arsonist
- asinine
- assassin
- avant-garde
- bandit
- be a ball
- belligerent
- bizarre
- blithe
- boycotter
- brute
- bully
- camp
- campy
- capricious
- captivating
- charming
- cheerful
- cheering
- clever
- clownish
- combatant
- comic
- comical
- compelling
- convivial
- crack-up
- criminal
- delightful
- delinquent
- demagogue
- demonstrator
- derisive
- derisory
- deserter
- disectarian
- disrupter
- dissenter
- diverting
- droll
- eccentric
- enchanting
- engaging
- engrossing
- enjoyable
- entertaining
- enthralling
- enticing
- entrancing
- exciting
- exhilarated
- experientialist
- experimenter
- extremist
- facetious
- fanatic
- fantastic
- farcical
- fascinating
- fighter
- firebrand
- for grins
- freethinker
- frolicsome
- frondeur
- fun
- funny
- gagged up
- gang member
- gangster
- gas
- gay
- gelastic
- gleeful
- good-humored
- goon
- gorilla
- guerrilla
- gunman
- gut-busting
- happy
- har-har
- heretic
- hilarious
- hired killer
- hood
- hooligan
- humdinger
- humorous
- hysterical
- iconoclast
- impressive
- inane
- independent
- individualist
- innovator
- inspiring
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- insurrectionist
- interesting
- jocose
- jocular
- jokey
- joking
- jolly
- joshing
- jovial
- joyful
- joyous
- killer
- killing
- knee-slapper
- laffer
- laughable
- left-winger
- leftist
- lively
- ludicrous
- malcontent
- marcher
- merry
- militant
- mirthful
- mobster
- mocking
- moving
- murderer
- mutineer
- nihilist
- noisy
- nonconformist
- nonsensical
- objector
- odd
- opponent
- overthrower
- pacifist
- partisan
- picketer
- piquant
- playful
- pleasant
- pleasurable
- poignant
- preposterous
- priceless
- professional killer
- progressive
- protester
- provocative
- punk
- pyromaniac
- quaint
- queer
- quizzical
- rabble-rouser
- radical
- rebel
- recreant
- recreative
- reformer
- relaxing
- renegade
- resistance
- resister
- restorative
- revolter
- revolutionary
- revolutionist
- rich
- ridiculous
- riot
- rioter
- riotous
- risible
- rollicking
- rousing
- rowdy
- ruffian
- schismatic
- scream
- screaming
- secessionist
- seditionist
- separatist
- side-splitting
- silly
- slapstick
- sportive
- stimulating
- stirring
- striker
- striking
- subversive
- subverter
- thrilling
- thug
- tough guy
- traitor
- troublemaker
- turncoat
- ultraist
- unusual
- uproarious
- waggish
- warrior
- whimsical
- witty
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