[syn: insurgent, seditious, subversive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Seditious \Se*di"tious\, a.[L. seditiosus: cf. F. s['e]ditieux.]
1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of,
or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior;
seditious strife; seditious words.
[1913 Webster]
2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to
lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition;
as, seditious citizens.
[1913 Webster] -- Se*di"tious*ly, adv. --
Se*di"tious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
seditious
adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary,
incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-
rousing, seditious]
2: in opposition to a civil authority or government [syn:
insurgent, seditious, subversive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "seditious":
alienated, breakaway, contumacious, disaffected, disloyal,
dissident, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithless, inflammatory,
insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, lawless, mutineering,
mutinous, perfidious, rabble-rousing, rebel, rebellious,
refractory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary,
subversive, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, turbulent,
turncoat, unfaithful, violent