Seditious

3 definitions found

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

  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.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seditious
       adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: {incendiary}, {incitive},
               {inflammatory}, {instigative}, {rabble-rousing}]
       2: in opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: {insurgent},
           {subversive}]

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

  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