terrorist

Meaning

Noun

1. A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
2. (historical) An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.

Adj

Of or relating to terrorism.

Synonyms

saboteur

destroyer

bully boy

dictator

dynamiter

hijacker

murderer

scaremonger

terror

terrorism

terroristic

alarmist

terrorists

assassin

Translations

terroriste

terrorista

terrorista

Terrorist

terrorista

terrorista

τρομοκράτης

Terroristin

terrorist

terörist

إرهابي

τρομακράτης

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛɹəɹɪst/

Etymology

From French terroriste. By surface analysis, terror + -ist. First used by Edmund Burke.