subversive
Syllables: sub·ver·sive/səbˈvɜːsɪv/US/səbˈvɝsɪv/
subversive adjective: intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase.
Adjective
subversive (comparative more subversive, superlative most subversive)
Noun
subversive (plural subversives)
- A radical supporter of political or social revolution.
- One who subverts, a saboteur, provocateur, or propagandist.
subversive meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
subversive in Tamil
- கவிழ்கின்ற, நிலை குலைவிக்கும்
subversive in Bengali
- নাশকতামূলক, ধ্বংসাত্মক
subversive in Malayalam
- troublemaking, disruptive, inflammatory
- വിദ്ധ്വംസക, ശിഥിലീകരണം ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, നശിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, പ്രക്ഷോഭാത്മകമായ, അട്ടിമറിക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്ന, തീവ്രവാദപരമായ
- dissident, troublemaker, agitator
- വിധ്വംസകൻ, അട്ടിമറിക്കാരൻ, അട്ടമറിക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്ന ആൾ, വിദ്ധ്വംസകപ്രവർത്തകൻ, വിമഥൻ, പ്രക്ഷോഭകൻ
subversive in Kannada
- ವಿಧ್ವಂಸಕ, ಬುಡಮೇಲು ಮಾಡುವ, ವಿನಾಶಕಾರಕ, ವಿದ್ರೋಹಕಾರಕ, ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಪತನಕಾರಕ, ಹಾಳುಗೆಡವುವ
More languagesFewer languages
- subversive in Indonesian
- subversif
Examples of subversive in a sentence
- The show's wholesome, if slyly subversive, tone makes recontextualizing those faces all the funnier."
- TAB is used with a certain subversive humour, to challenge the security of the 'able-bodied' position.
- Baker’s ostentatious laid-backness subversive, to imbue it with so much bad-boy allure.
Synonyms of subversive
Forms of subversive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more subversive |
| superlative | most subversive |
| Noun | |
| plural | subversives |
Origin of subversive
See subvert and -ive.
Words formed from subversive
Words that rhyme with subversive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- 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 subversive
- What does subversive mean?
- Subversive means intending to subvert, overturn, undermine or debase.
- What is subversive in Tamil?
- Subversive in Tamil is கவிழ்கின்ற, நிலை குலைவிக்கும். See Subversive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is subversive?
- Subversive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce subversive?
- Subversive is pronounced /səbˈvɝsɪv/ (US).
Words near subversive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: subversive (page history and authors); subversive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subversive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subversive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); subversive (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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