insurrectionary

Examples

• All

• During the meeting, the general discussed the insurrectionary forces that were gathering strength in the region.

• Spencer sums up this cultural labor as an insurrectionary retrieval of black sexuality from the deadening confines of white mechanisms of control and regulation.

  Academic text (2000)

• The poetry selected here comes from within this exposure, this opening, this Insurrectionary Turn.

  Blog text (4)

• Lost causes somehow represent the rebel spirit, a rebellious spirit, an insurrectionary spirit, an insurgent spirit.

• At the very moment at which his insurrectionary ideology was triumphant, Raynal recoiled.

  Academic text (2000)

• Because the machinery of APRA developed faster and much more extensively than that of the Communists and launched insurrectionary activity early on, traditional elites feared and opposed the party more than any other political force.

  Academic text (1990)

• Eqbal Ahmad's exploration of Islamic political culture helps us to understand these developments by identifying an "activist and insurrectionary" strain in Islam whose target has often been a state that has lost its claims to popular and religious legitimacy.

  Academic text (1995)

• The insurrectionary movement aimed to overthrow the oppressive regime and establish a new government.

• The insurrectionary leaders called for a revolt against the unjust laws imposed by the ruling party.

Synonyms

S

subversive

vsinsurrectionary

37 7.8

Intended to weaken or remove a government

emphasizes open uprising inclination rather than covert undermining efforts

R

rebellious

vsinsurrectionary

9 4.9

Taking part in resistance against the government or authority

highlights inclination toward organised uprising rather than general opposition

I

insurrectional

vsinsurrectionary

9.9

Supporting or joining a revolt against the government

is the same meaning but uses an alternative adjectival form

S

seditionist

vsinsurrectionary

• Formal

9.7

Supporting actions that try to remove the government or other authority

focuses on personal tendency toward direct uprising rather than encouragement

Antonyms

S

submissive

38 5.1

Willing to obey others and not argue

C

compliant

31 5.1

Willing to follow rules or do what other people want

How Rebellious

insurrectionary

1 9.9

seditious

• Formal

4 9.9

rebellious

43 4.5

restive

6 8.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology