propagandist
/pɹɒpəˈɡandɪst/
propagandist noun: a person who disseminates propaganda.
Noun
propagandist (plural propagandists)
- A person who disseminates propaganda.
- Every country has been officially invited by the Belgian Government to send delegates to the International Congress of Agricultural Associations, which will take pace at Brussels in September, 1910. In most countries propagandist committees have been formed in connection with this Congress.1910, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 14, page 31
- "Astroturfers and propagandists tend to attack and controversialize the news organizations, personalities and people surrounding an issue rather than sticking to the facts."2015, Kevin Barry, Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC
Adjective
propagandist (comparative more propagandist, superlative most propagandist)
- Consisting of or spreading propaganda.
- Of course many of these accounts were propagandist in intention and designed for an unsophisticated audience.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 87
- In another comment from the audience, one woman raised what is perhaps the anti-pornography movement's strongest point. "There's a strain of pornography which is incredibly propagandist against women," she said.1985 April 13, Sean Herhily, “Anti-Censorship Forum”, in Gay Community News, page 10
- Synonyms:
- propagandistic
propagandist meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
propagandist in Hindi
- person who disseminates propaganda
- प्रचारक pracārak
propagandist in Malayalam
- champion, promoter, supporter
- പ്രചാരകൻ, പ്രചരണോത്സുകൻ, പ്രവർത്തകൻ, പ്രചാരണപ്രവർത്തകൻ, പ്രചാരണവ്യഗ്രൻ, അഭിവർദ്ധകൻ
propagandist in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಚಾರಕ, ಮತಪ್ರಚಾರಕ
propagandist in Arabic
- person who disseminates propaganda
- دَاعٍ dāʕin, مُرَوِّج murawwij, مُبَلِّغ muballiḡ, دَاعِيَة dāʕiya
More languagesFewer languages
- propagandist in Thai
- นักโฆษณาชวนเชื่อ, นักโฆษณา
- propagandist in Vietnamese
- người tuyên truyền
Examples of propagandist in a sentence
- Soviet propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed 'whataboutism'.
- 'Whataboutism' was a favourite tactic of Soviet propagandists during the old Cold War.
- The propagandum has served the purpose of the propagandist if the receiver acts in the desired manner.
Synonyms of propagandist
Forms of propagandist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | propagandists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more propagandist |
| superlative | most propagandist |
Origin of propagandist
From propaganda + -ist, after French propagandiste.
Words formed from propagandist
Questions about propagandist
- What does propagandist mean?
- Propagandist means a person who disseminates propaganda.
- What is propagandist in Hindi?
- Propagandist in Hindi is प्रचारक (pracārak). See Propagandist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is propagandist?
- Propagandist can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce propagandist?
- Propagandist is pronounced /pɹɒpəˈɡandɪst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of propagandist?
- The plural of propagandist is propagandists.
Words near propagandist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: propagandist (page history and authors); propagandist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); propagandist (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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