Synonyms for insurgent
ɪnˈsɜr dʒəntin·sur·gent

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1. insurgentnoun

   Synonyms:
   malcontent, rebel, traitor, mutineer, rioter

   Antonyms:
   patriot, adherent, supporter, constabulary, executive, ruler, magistrate

2. insurgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   rebellious, unruly

   Antonyms:
   loyal, patriotic, obedient

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1. insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebelnoun

   a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

   Synonyms:
   freedom fighter, rebel, insurrectionist, guerilla, irregular, greyback, guerrilla, maverick

   Antonyms:
   loyal

2. guerrilla, guerilla, irregular, insurgentadjective

   a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

   Synonyms:
   freedom fighter, rebel, insurrectionist, second, guerilla, irregular, guerrilla

   Antonyms:
   loyal

3. insurgent, seditious, subversiveadjective

   in opposition to a civil authority or government

   Synonyms:
   instigative, seditious, rabble-rousing, inflammatory, incitive, incendiary, subversive

   Antonyms:
   loyal

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1. • Reformer
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1. insurgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   rebellious, seditious, insubordinate, disobedient, mutinous

2. insurgentnoun

   Synonyms:
   rebel, traitor, revolter, renegade

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1. insurgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   rebellious, mutinous, insubordinate, insurrectionary

2. insurgentnoun

   Synonyms:
   rebel, revolter, mutineer, insurrectionist

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1. List of paraphrases for "insurgent":

   rebel, rebels, insurgency, rebellious, insurgents, rebellion, renegade, militants, gunmen

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1. Vanda Felbab-Brown:

   But just like with many other insurgent groups, there is often way too much... mystique afforded to the drug economies. What competent, even moderately competent insurgents and, frankly, criminal groups do, is to simply tax anything in the area, where they have enough influence to be able to enforce the collection of informal taxation.

2. George Steiner:

   The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

3. Joseph Dunford:

   I think it's fair to say that they still have a significant presence in Iraq and Syria. They're certainly nowhere near as strong as they were in 2017 and 2018, so they have been significantly degraded, again still maintain the ability to conduct insurgent, guerrilla-style operations and that's what they see today.

4. Joseph Parkes:

   The Taliban has taken power but the transition from insurgent group to national government will be far from straightforward, functional governance of the nascent mineral sector is likely many years away.

5. Hedayatullah Stanekzai:

   We have full preparation and facilities to run a vaccine campaign in the whole country but due to security threats, we can't send our campaigners to the Taliban-controlled and other insurgent areas.