countersubversive
countersubversive adjective: opposing subversive activities.
Adjective
countersubversive (not comparable)
- Opposing subversive activities.
Noun
countersubversive (plural countersubversives)
- One who opposes subversive activities.
- As countersubversives saw it, queer artists worked hand in hand (literally, it seemed) with political subversives while their decadent art undermined America's cultural offensive. These suspicions went public in 1953 […]2007, Michael S. Sherry, Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy
Forms of countersubversive
| plural | countersubversives |
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Origin of countersubversive
From counter- + subversive.
Words that rhyme with countersubversive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
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- subversive
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about countersubversive
- What does countersubversive mean?
- Countersubversive means opposing subversive activities.
- What part of speech is countersubversive?
- Countersubversive can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near countersubversive in the dictionary
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