Definition of subversive in English:

subversive

adjective səbˈvəːsɪvsəbˈvərsɪv

Seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution.
颠覆性的；起破坏作用的
subversive literature
颠覆性文学。
Example sentencesExamples
- He has even banned subversive activities such as opera, ballet and the circus.
- Many of these exiles launched a relentless crusade of anti-Catholic propaganda and subversive literature against Mary, which the government was obliged to suppress or refute as best it could.
- Simply put, dominant institutions deploy orthodox strategies and subversive institutions rely on heterodox ones.
- Meanwhile the Directors sought to encourage less subversive cults.
- But, faced with a deep division in society, the generals regard any influence exerted by alternative tendencies as being subversive and dangerous.
- Then came the fun of the '50s with comic books being called subversive Communist propaganda.
- To a large extent, the job of a university is to be subversive and provocative, while the job of capitalism is to harness human greed in order to build businesses that employ people and create wealth.
- Soon after his release, he was convicted again for subversive activities but managed to escape to Malaysia.
- Morality has been used as a smoke screen for political suppression, since the original target of any state censorship was not sex but politically subversive material/literature.
- Even though there are some who may feel sympathetic with the philosophy scholar, it is generally agreed that the scope of his subversive activities against his mother country are too grave to be exonerated.
- There is an incipiently anarchistic and subversive element to his work.
- Thus we have the makings of a quite subversive literary tradition that seeks to undermine the tightly controlled world of the urban elites.
- But secondly, the movie is very dialectic and remains very subversive, inasmuch as it has sympathy for rebellious characters.
- I wish I could say that I was involved in subversive terrorist activity while trying to smash a corrupt and evil government.
- Two years later, however, the king disbanded the Assembly, accusing some of its members of subversive activities.
- The charges raised against them were political conspiracy with the aim of disrupting the work of the government, as well as subversive propaganda and violent disruption of the state economic order.
- In fact, people might be catching on to the scams more frequently these days, which is causing scammers to seek newer and more subversive methods of fooling their prey.
- The family has become a subversive institution - almost an underground conspiracy - at war with the state and the state-sponsored culture.
- However, other members have continued subversive activities.
- Over 60 of its members, including its leader, were arrested and accused of espionage, subversive activities and other crimes.
Synonyms
disruptive, troublemaking, inflammatory, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, rabble-rousing
seditious, revolutionary, treasonous, treacherous, mutinous, rebellious, rebel, renegade, unpatriotic, dissident, disloyal, perfidious, insubordinate, underground, undermining, corrupting, discrediting, destructive, harmful

noun səbˈvəːsɪvsəbˈvərsɪv

A subversive person.
the government claimed we were subversives or terrorists
Example sentencesExamples
- By the end of the 1970s, terrorists and subversives were able to act with near impunity on U.S. soil.
- By now known as a subversive and revolutionary, Marx was expelled from Paris, at the request of the Prussian authorities.
- In Tate Modern the rebels, renegades and subversives are given their own cathedral.
- Hollywood also launched him into politics, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he helped purge the movie business of what he saw as Communist subversives.
- The movement's first manifesto declared that they were subversives committed to opposing tyranny.
- They also permit FBI agents to roam at will through the Internet to hunt for potential subversives.
- There were massive ‘files’ that consisted of jars of smells of suspected subversives.
- Now regarded as a dangerous subversive, Emmeline was watched by plain clothes detectives.
- ‘We were expected to check these lists against our known subversives and if any were seen on the list, strike a line through it,’ Robinson said.
- Their triumph there merely confirmed their age-old reputation in Catholic eyes as subversives and troublemakers.
- By the term subversives they mean trade unionists, socialists and other campaigners.
- Was she a spy or a dangerous subversive?
- Gathering such information about the terrorists can be daunting, given the desire of most subversives to keep the organization small, stealthy, and secret.
- It should by now be an old story that in the name of counter-subversion, those who did their best to put the alleged subversives out of business did more damage to the Republic than the alleged subversives themselves.
- Deemed a subversive for her outspoken speeches against apartheid, her songs were never played on the radio.
- MI5 kept a secret register of suspected Communists and subversives known as the ‘Everest List’ who would have to be arrested in the event of war.
- House-to-house searches may be necessary to find and eliminate potential anthrax-mailers and other subversives with American citizenship.
- In those days, dissidents or subversives could easily disappear from one day to the next, never to be seen again, after being picked up by the secret police.
- Also, no small point, the Catholics were the subversives and the minority; they were a more enticing target than the majority Protestants, loyal to the crown.
- For weeks, demonstrators have been chanting in several Italian cities: ‘We are all subversives!’
Synonyms
troublemaker, dissident, agitator, revolutionary, revolutionist, insurgent, insurrectionist, insurrectionary, renegade, rebel, mutineer, traitor

Derivatives

subversively

adverbsəbˈvəːsɪvlisəbˈvərsɪvli

About twenty years ago a scholar rather subversively wondered aloud at an academic conference, ‘Why is Contemporary Scholarship so Enamored of Ancient Heretics?’
Example sentencesExamples
- Others, as conductors on the Underground Railroad, were more directly and subversively involved in securing freedom for slaves.
- So now we knew how to be professional but we also remembered how to be subversive, subversively female, subversively feminine.
- These voting procedures could subversively affect the outcome of the race in Minnesota.
- The male actors, rather subversively though, even changed their genders, as if to destabilise the rigid distinction ingrained in the reconstruction of male and female bodies.

subversiveness

noun

Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such tactics were even praised by the Daily Telegraph recently as offering ‘an honest subversiveness which a conservative newspaper can admire’.
- Aggressive linguistic subversiveness, which used to be his hallmark, has dwindled into charm; sheer amazement has become indistinct bemusement.
- Less charitably, shouldn't indie kids be able to listen to music well-educated white people usually think is ‘beneath them’ without requiring it to give off the patina of subversiveness?
- The heavy use of vernacular speech in rap lyrics underscores the subversiveness of hip hop with respect to mainstream culture and its consonance with vernacular cultural values.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin subversivus, from the verb subvertere (see subvert).

Rhymes

coercive, cursive, excursive

Definition of subversive in US English:

subversive

adjectivesəbˈvərsɪvsəbˈvərsiv

Seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution.
颠覆性的；起破坏作用的
subversive literature
颠覆性文学。
Example sentencesExamples
- Many of these exiles launched a relentless crusade of anti-Catholic propaganda and subversive literature against Mary, which the government was obliged to suppress or refute as best it could.
- Thus we have the makings of a quite subversive literary tradition that seeks to undermine the tightly controlled world of the urban elites.
- The family has become a subversive institution - almost an underground conspiracy - at war with the state and the state-sponsored culture.
- But, faced with a deep division in society, the generals regard any influence exerted by alternative tendencies as being subversive and dangerous.
- I wish I could say that I was involved in subversive terrorist activity while trying to smash a corrupt and evil government.
- The charges raised against them were political conspiracy with the aim of disrupting the work of the government, as well as subversive propaganda and violent disruption of the state economic order.
- Simply put, dominant institutions deploy orthodox strategies and subversive institutions rely on heterodox ones.
- However, other members have continued subversive activities.
- He has even banned subversive activities such as opera, ballet and the circus.
- In fact, people might be catching on to the scams more frequently these days, which is causing scammers to seek newer and more subversive methods of fooling their prey.
- Then came the fun of the '50s with comic books being called subversive Communist propaganda.
- Over 60 of its members, including its leader, were arrested and accused of espionage, subversive activities and other crimes.
- Morality has been used as a smoke screen for political suppression, since the original target of any state censorship was not sex but politically subversive material/literature.
- But secondly, the movie is very dialectic and remains very subversive, inasmuch as it has sympathy for rebellious characters.
- To a large extent, the job of a university is to be subversive and provocative, while the job of capitalism is to harness human greed in order to build businesses that employ people and create wealth.
- Soon after his release, he was convicted again for subversive activities but managed to escape to Malaysia.
- There is an incipiently anarchistic and subversive element to his work.
- Even though there are some who may feel sympathetic with the philosophy scholar, it is generally agreed that the scope of his subversive activities against his mother country are too grave to be exonerated.
- Meanwhile the Directors sought to encourage less subversive cults.
- Two years later, however, the king disbanded the Assembly, accusing some of its members of subversive activities.
Synonyms
disruptive, troublemaking, inflammatory, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, agitational, rabble-rousing

nounsəbˈvərsɪvsəbˈvərsiv

A subversive person.
Example sentencesExamples
- House-to-house searches may be necessary to find and eliminate potential anthrax-mailers and other subversives with American citizenship.
- It should by now be an old story that in the name of counter-subversion, those who did their best to put the alleged subversives out of business did more damage to the Republic than the alleged subversives themselves.
- By now known as a subversive and revolutionary, Marx was expelled from Paris, at the request of the Prussian authorities.
- Deemed a subversive for her outspoken speeches against apartheid, her songs were never played on the radio.
- MI5 kept a secret register of suspected Communists and subversives known as the ‘Everest List’ who would have to be arrested in the event of war.
- Was she a spy or a dangerous subversive?
- By the end of the 1970s, terrorists and subversives were able to act with near impunity on U.S. soil.
- In Tate Modern the rebels, renegades and subversives are given their own cathedral.
- The movement's first manifesto declared that they were subversives committed to opposing tyranny.
- In those days, dissidents or subversives could easily disappear from one day to the next, never to be seen again, after being picked up by the secret police.
- By the term subversives they mean trade unionists, socialists and other campaigners.
- Now regarded as a dangerous subversive, Emmeline was watched by plain clothes detectives.
- Their triumph there merely confirmed their age-old reputation in Catholic eyes as subversives and troublemakers.
- Hollywood also launched him into politics, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he helped purge the movie business of what he saw as Communist subversives.
- They also permit FBI agents to roam at will through the Internet to hunt for potential subversives.
- There were massive ‘files’ that consisted of jars of smells of suspected subversives.
- Also, no small point, the Catholics were the subversives and the minority; they were a more enticing target than the majority Protestants, loyal to the crown.
- Gathering such information about the terrorists can be daunting, given the desire of most subversives to keep the organization small, stealthy, and secret.
- For weeks, demonstrators have been chanting in several Italian cities: ‘We are all subversives!’
- ‘We were expected to check these lists against our known subversives and if any were seen on the list, strike a line through it,’ Robinson said.
Synonyms
troublemaker, dissident, agitator, revolutionary, revolutionist, insurgent, insurrectionist, insurrectionary, renegade, rebel, mutineer, traitor

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin subversivus, from the verb subvertere (see subvert).

词汇	subversive
释义	Definition of subversive in English: subversive adjective səbˈvəːsɪvsəbˈvərsɪv Seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution. 颠覆性的；起破坏作用的 subversive literature 颠覆性文学。 Example sentencesExamples He has even banned subversive activities such as opera, ballet and the circus. Many of these exiles launched a relentless crusade of anti-Catholic propaganda and subversive literature against Mary, which the government was obliged to suppress or refute as best it could. Simply put, dominant institutions deploy orthodox strategies and subversive institutions rely on heterodox ones. Meanwhile the Directors sought to encourage less subversive cults. But, faced with a deep division in society, the generals regard any influence exerted by alternative tendencies as being subversive and dangerous. Then came the fun of the '50s with comic books being called subversive Communist propaganda. To a large extent, the job of a university is to be subversive and provocative, while the job of capitalism is to harness human greed in order to build businesses that employ people and create wealth. Soon after his release, he was convicted again for subversive activities but managed to escape to Malaysia. Morality has been used as a smoke screen for political suppression, since the original target of any state censorship was not sex but politically subversive material/literature. Even though there are some who may feel sympathetic with the philosophy scholar, it is generally agreed that the scope of his subversive activities against his mother country are too grave to be exonerated. There is an incipiently anarchistic and subversive element to his work. Thus we have the makings of a quite subversive literary tradition that seeks to undermine the tightly controlled world of the urban elites. But secondly, the movie is very dialectic and remains very subversive, inasmuch as it has sympathy for rebellious characters. I wish I could say that I was involved in subversive terrorist activity while trying to smash a corrupt and evil government. Two years later, however, the king disbanded the Assembly, accusing some of its members of subversive activities. The charges raised against them were political conspiracy with the aim of disrupting the work of the government, as well as subversive propaganda and violent disruption of the state economic order. In fact, people might be catching on to the scams more frequently these days, which is causing scammers to seek newer and more subversive methods of fooling their prey. The family has become a subversive institution - almost an underground conspiracy - at war with the state and the state-sponsored culture. However, other members have continued subversive activities. Over 60 of its members, including its leader, were arrested and accused of espionage, subversive activities and other crimes. Synonyms disruptive, troublemaking, inflammatory, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, rabble-rousing seditious, revolutionary, treasonous, treacherous, mutinous, rebellious, rebel, renegade, unpatriotic, dissident, disloyal, perfidious, insubordinate, underground, undermining, corrupting, discrediting, destructive, harmful noun səbˈvəːsɪvsəbˈvərsɪv A subversive person. the government claimed we were subversives or terrorists Example sentencesExamples By the end of the 1970s, terrorists and subversives were able to act with near impunity on U.S. soil. By now known as a subversive and revolutionary, Marx was expelled from Paris, at the request of the Prussian authorities. In Tate Modern the rebels, renegades and subversives are given their own cathedral. Hollywood also launched him into politics, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he helped purge the movie business of what he saw as Communist subversives. The movement's first manifesto declared that they were subversives committed to opposing tyranny. They also permit FBI agents to roam at will through the Internet to hunt for potential subversives. There were massive ‘files’ that consisted of jars of smells of suspected subversives. Now regarded as a dangerous subversive, Emmeline was watched by plain clothes detectives. ‘We were expected to check these lists against our known subversives and if any were seen on the list, strike a line through it,’ Robinson said. Their triumph there merely confirmed their age-old reputation in Catholic eyes as subversives and troublemakers. By the term subversives they mean trade unionists, socialists and other campaigners. Was she a spy or a dangerous subversive? Gathering such information about the terrorists can be daunting, given the desire of most subversives to keep the organization small, stealthy, and secret. It should by now be an old story that in the name of counter-subversion, those who did their best to put the alleged subversives out of business did more damage to the Republic than the alleged subversives themselves. Deemed a subversive for her outspoken speeches against apartheid, her songs were never played on the radio. MI5 kept a secret register of suspected Communists and subversives known as the ‘Everest List’ who would have to be arrested in the event of war. House-to-house searches may be necessary to find and eliminate potential anthrax-mailers and other subversives with American citizenship. In those days, dissidents or subversives could easily disappear from one day to the next, never to be seen again, after being picked up by the secret police. Also, no small point, the Catholics were the subversives and the minority; they were a more enticing target than the majority Protestants, loyal to the crown. For weeks, demonstrators have been chanting in several Italian cities: ‘We are all subversives!’ Synonyms troublemaker, dissident, agitator, revolutionary, revolutionist, insurgent, insurrectionist, insurrectionary, renegade, rebel, mutineer, traitor Derivatives subversively adverbsəbˈvəːsɪvlisəbˈvərsɪvli About twenty years ago a scholar rather subversively wondered aloud at an academic conference, ‘Why is Contemporary Scholarship so Enamored of Ancient Heretics?’ Example sentencesExamples Others, as conductors on the Underground Railroad, were more directly and subversively involved in securing freedom for slaves. So now we knew how to be professional but we also remembered how to be subversive, subversively female, subversively feminine. These voting procedures could subversively affect the outcome of the race in Minnesota. The male actors, rather subversively though, even changed their genders, as if to destabilise the rigid distinction ingrained in the reconstruction of male and female bodies. subversiveness noun Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness. Example sentencesExamples Such tactics were even praised by the Daily Telegraph recently as offering ‘an honest subversiveness which a conservative newspaper can admire’. Aggressive linguistic subversiveness, which used to be his hallmark, has dwindled into charm; sheer amazement has become indistinct bemusement. Less charitably, shouldn't indie kids be able to listen to music well-educated white people usually think is ‘beneath them’ without requiring it to give off the patina of subversiveness? The heavy use of vernacular speech in rap lyrics underscores the subversiveness of hip hop with respect to mainstream culture and its consonance with vernacular cultural values. Origin Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin subversivus, from the verb subvertere (see subvert). Rhymes coercive, cursive, excursive Definition of subversive in US English: subversive adjectivesəbˈvərsɪvsəbˈvərsiv Seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution. 颠覆性的；起破坏作用的 subversive literature 颠覆性文学。 Example sentencesExamples Many of these exiles launched a relentless crusade of anti-Catholic propaganda and subversive literature against Mary, which the government was obliged to suppress or refute as best it could. Thus we have the makings of a quite subversive literary tradition that seeks to undermine the tightly controlled world of the urban elites. The family has become a subversive institution - almost an underground conspiracy - at war with the state and the state-sponsored culture. But, faced with a deep division in society, the generals regard any influence exerted by alternative tendencies as being subversive and dangerous. I wish I could say that I was involved in subversive terrorist activity while trying to smash a corrupt and evil government. The charges raised against them were political conspiracy with the aim of disrupting the work of the government, as well as subversive propaganda and violent disruption of the state economic order. Simply put, dominant institutions deploy orthodox strategies and subversive institutions rely on heterodox ones. However, other members have continued subversive activities. He has even banned subversive activities such as opera, ballet and the circus. In fact, people might be catching on to the scams more frequently these days, which is causing scammers to seek newer and more subversive methods of fooling their prey. Then came the fun of the '50s with comic books being called subversive Communist propaganda. Over 60 of its members, including its leader, were arrested and accused of espionage, subversive activities and other crimes. Morality has been used as a smoke screen for political suppression, since the original target of any state censorship was not sex but politically subversive material/literature. But secondly, the movie is very dialectic and remains very subversive, inasmuch as it has sympathy for rebellious characters. To a large extent, the job of a university is to be subversive and provocative, while the job of capitalism is to harness human greed in order to build businesses that employ people and create wealth. Soon after his release, he was convicted again for subversive activities but managed to escape to Malaysia. There is an incipiently anarchistic and subversive element to his work. Even though there are some who may feel sympathetic with the philosophy scholar, it is generally agreed that the scope of his subversive activities against his mother country are too grave to be exonerated. Meanwhile the Directors sought to encourage less subversive cults. Two years later, however, the king disbanded the Assembly, accusing some of its members of subversive activities. Synonyms disruptive, troublemaking, inflammatory, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, agitational, rabble-rousing nounsəbˈvərsɪvsəbˈvərsiv A subversive person. Example sentencesExamples House-to-house searches may be necessary to find and eliminate potential anthrax-mailers and other subversives with American citizenship. It should by now be an old story that in the name of counter-subversion, those who did their best to put the alleged subversives out of business did more damage to the Republic than the alleged subversives themselves. By now known as a subversive and revolutionary, Marx was expelled from Paris, at the request of the Prussian authorities. Deemed a subversive for her outspoken speeches against apartheid, her songs were never played on the radio. MI5 kept a secret register of suspected Communists and subversives known as the ‘Everest List’ who would have to be arrested in the event of war. Was she a spy or a dangerous subversive? By the end of the 1970s, terrorists and subversives were able to act with near impunity on U.S. soil. In Tate Modern the rebels, renegades and subversives are given their own cathedral. The movement's first manifesto declared that they were subversives committed to opposing tyranny. In those days, dissidents or subversives could easily disappear from one day to the next, never to be seen again, after being picked up by the secret police. By the term subversives they mean trade unionists, socialists and other campaigners. Now regarded as a dangerous subversive, Emmeline was watched by plain clothes detectives. Their triumph there merely confirmed their age-old reputation in Catholic eyes as subversives and troublemakers. Hollywood also launched him into politics, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he helped purge the movie business of what he saw as Communist subversives. They also permit FBI agents to roam at will through the Internet to hunt for potential subversives. There were massive ‘files’ that consisted of jars of smells of suspected subversives. Also, no small point, the Catholics were the subversives and the minority; they were a more enticing target than the majority Protestants, loyal to the crown. Gathering such information about the terrorists can be daunting, given the desire of most subversives to keep the organization small, stealthy, and secret. For weeks, demonstrators have been chanting in several Italian cities: ‘We are all subversives!’ ‘We were expected to check these lists against our known subversives and if any were seen on the list, strike a line through it,’ Robinson said. Synonyms troublemaker, dissident, agitator, revolutionary, revolutionist, insurgent, insurrectionist, insurrectionary, renegade, rebel, mutineer, traitor Origin Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin subversivus, from the verb subvertere (see subvert).
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