What is "reformist" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does reformist mean in English? Meaning of reformist definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "reformist" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "reformist": a disputant who advocates reform

Noun

  • Meaning: a disputant who advocates reform
  • Synonyms: crusader meliorist reformer reformist social reformer
  • Hyponyms: abolitionist activist birth-control campaigner birth-control reformer chartist civil rights activist civil rights leader civil rights worker conservationist demonstrator dry emancipationist environmentalist feminist flower child freedom fighter hippie hippy hipster insurgent insurrectionist libber militant non-resistant passive resister preservationist prohibitionist protester rebel utopian women's liberationist women's rightist
  • Hypernyms: controversialist disputant eristic
  • Instance Hyponyms: anthony comstock comstock dix dorothea dix dorothea lynde dix francis everett townsend girolamo savonarola hus huss jan hus john huss john wilkes owen robert owen savonarola townsend wilkes
  • Meaning of "reformist": favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

    Adjective

  • Meaning: favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
  • Synonyms: progressive reform-minded reformist
  • Similar: liberal
  • Adjective: Advocating reform of an institution or body. 1913 Émile Faguet, Initiation into Literature translated by Sir Home Gordon [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.1913 Émile Faguet, Initiation into Literature translated by Sir Home Gordon [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
  • Synonyms:

    permissive, enlightened, radical, tolerant, flexible, lenient, catholic, broad, humanitarian, free, general, avant-garde, rational, understanding, left, advanced, broad-minded, high-minded, indulgent, intelligent, interested, loose, magnanimous, reasonable, receiving, receptive, unbiased, unconventional, unorthodox, unprejudiced, humanistic, latitudinarian, libertarian, unbigoted, revolutionary, continuous, radical, modern, dynamic, tolerant, gradual, enlightened, broad, avant-garde, go-ahead, left, advanced, broad-minded, continuing, enterprising, graduated, increasing, lenient, ongoing, onward, open-minded, up-and-coming, up-to-date, wide, forward-looking, developing, accelerating, advancing, bleeding-heart, escalating, intensifying, left of center, advanced, avant-garde, broad, broad-minded, catholic, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, humanitarian, indulgent, intelligent, interested, left, lenient, loose, magnanimous, permissive, progressive, radical, rational, reasonable, receiving, receptive, tolerant, unbiased, unconventional, understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced, humanistic, latitudinarian, libertarian, unbigoted,

    Antonyms:

    intolerant, specific, conservative, narrow-minded, greedy, thrifty, ungenerous, lacking, wanting, narrow, limited, economical, mean, poor, intermittent, conservative, moderate,

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    reformist in English: reformist
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