Terrorist

3 definitions found

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

  Terrorist \Ter"ror*ist\, n. [F. terroriste.]
     1. One who governs by terrorism or intimidation;
        specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary
        tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. --Burke.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. One who commits terrorism[2].
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  terrorist
       adj : characteristic of someone who employs terrorism (especially
             as a political weapon); "terrorist activity";
             "terrorist state"
       n : a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually
           organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often
           uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

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

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "terrorist":
     Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist,
     Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin,
     Leninist, Mafioso, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red,
     Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC,
     Vietcong, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, Young Turk, alarmist, anarch,
     anarchist, annihilator, arsonist, assassin, beast, beldam, berserk,
     berserker, biblioclast, bomber, bonnet rouge, brute, burner,
     criminal, criminal syndicalist, demolisher, demon, desperado,
     destroyer, devil, dragon, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator,
     felon, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fury, goon, gorilla, gunman,
     gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion,
     holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hun, iconoclast,
     idol breaker, idoloclast, incendiary, insurgent, killer, mad dog,
     madcap, monster, mugger, nihilist, radical, rapist, rebel, red,
     revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist,
     revolutionizer, ruiner, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, savage,
     scaremonger, she-wolf, spitfire, subversive, syndicalist,
     termagant, terror, thug, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy,
     ugly customer, vandal, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, witch,
     wolf, wrecker