Nihilist

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nihilist \Ni"hil*ist\, n. [Cf. F. nihiliste. See {Nihilism}.]
     1. One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who
        believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted
        to exist.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (Politics) A member of a secret association (esp. in
        Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the
        present political, religious, and social institutions.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nihilist
       n 1: someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious
            belief
       2: an advocate of anarchism [syn: {anarchist}, {syndicalist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "nihilist":
     Bolshevik, Cassandra, Eeyore, Jacobin, Wobbly, anarch, anarchist,
     anarcho-syndicalist, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite,
     antinomian, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute,
     burner, calamity howler, cannibal, cynic, defeatist, demolisher,
     destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator,
     extreme left-winger, extremist, hun, hyena, iconoclast,
     idol breaker, idoloclast, killjoy, left-wing extremist,
     lunatic fringe, malist, man-eater, mild radical, mutineer,
     negativist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pessimist, pink, pinko,
     prophet of doom, radical, rebel, red, retreatist, revolutionary,
     revolutionist, ruiner, sans-culotte, savage, seek-sorrow, shark,
     subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, ultra, ultraist, vandal,
     wild man, worrywart, wrecker, yippie
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  NIHILIST, n.  A Russian who denies the existence of anything but
  Tolstoi.  The leader of the school is Tolstoi.