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nihilist

/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/US/ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/

nihilist noun: a person who accepts or champions nihilism.

Noun

nihilist (plural nihilists)

  1. A person who accepts or champions nihilism.
    • “Promortalists recognize and seek to minimize suffering rather than embrace misanthropy and amorality,” Keneally says, noting that the writings attributed to Bartkus indicate he rejected the “sociopath[ic]” tendencies of nihilists” in a May 2025 forum post. […] According to the ISD report, the...2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 May 2025
  2. An absolute skeptic; a person who believes in the truth of nothing.

Adjective

nihilist (comparative more nihilist, superlative most nihilist)

  1. Nihilistic; seeing no value.
    • Bauer used the same arguments as Rosa Luxemburg, though he was far from sharing her nihilist attitude to the national question.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...

nihilist meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

nihilist in Tamil

விதிகள், கோட்பாடுகள் யாவற்றையும் மறுப்பவர்

nihilist in Malayalam

disbeliever, sceptic, unbeliever
ശൂന്യവാദി, സംശയവാദി, അവിശ്വാസി, ഉച്ഛേദവാദി, ദുർദ്ദുരുടൻ, നാസ്തികൻ

nihilist in Kannada

ಶೂನ್ಯವಾದಿ

Forms of nihilist

Noun
pluralnihilists
Adjective
comparativemore nihilist
superlativemost nihilist

Origin of nihilist

From Latin nihil (“nothing”) + -ist.

Words formed from nihilist

Phrases with nihilist

Questions about nihilist

What does nihilist mean?
Nihilist means a person who accepts or champions nihilism.
What is nihilist in Tamil?
Nihilist in Tamil is விதிகள், கோட்பாடுகள் யாவற்றையும் மறுப்பவர். See Nihilist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nihilist?
Nihilist can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce nihilist?
Nihilist is pronounced /ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪl.ɪst/ (UK).
What is the plural of nihilist?
The plural of nihilist is nihilists.

Words near nihilist in the dictionary

  1. nihilifies
  2. nihilify
  3. nihilifying
  4. nihilism
  5. nihilisms
  6. nihilist
  7. Nihilist cipher
  8. Nihilist ciphers
  9. nihilistic
  10. nihilistically
  11. nihilists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nihilist (page history and authors); nihilist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nihilist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nihilist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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