Synonyms for Activist
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1. activistnoun

   Synonyms:
   mover and shaker

2. activistnoun

   Behaving as an activist.

   Synonyms:
   mover and shaker

3. activistnoun

   one who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.

   Synonyms:
   mover and shaker

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. militant, activistadjective

   a militant reformer

   Synonyms:
   militant, activist

   Antonyms:
   passive, inactive

2. activist, activisticadjective

   advocating or engaged in activism

   Synonyms:
   activistic, activist

   Antonyms:
   inactive, passive

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1. List of paraphrases for "activist":

   militant, campaigner, activists, activism, active

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1. Fujifilm Holdings Corp:

   Xerox has recently been subject to the whims of activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, who, notwithstanding their minority ownership of Xerox shares, have yanked the Xerox Board in more directions than can be counted.

2. Anita Hoffer:

   It tastefully and unselfconsciously names, describes and normalizes behaviors that are universal and, by example, invites the viewer to experiment and learn, as Leonore Tiefer (sex researcher, therapist and activist) has said, 'Sex is not a natural act,' and good lovemaking is an art that must be learned and practiced.

3. Mia Farrow:

   The saying means, for example, you can’t support #TIMESUP and praise sexual predators at the same time, you can’t retain your credibility as an activist (i.e. - retain the cake_ and, at the same time, praise a sexual predator (i.e. - eating the cake).

4. Ed Gonzalez:

   Eric Black Jr. became a target in our investigation based on a tip that initially went to journalist and activist Shaun King, shaun King then passed that tip to me personally.

5. Joan Baez:

   My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.