Word Meanings - SEDITIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words. 2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent;

Additional info about word: SEDITIOUS

1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words. 2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. -- Se*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Se*di"tious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEDITIOUS)

• Mutinous
• Turbulent
• seditious
• insurgent
• riotous
• tumultuous
• unruly
• refractory
• insurrectionary
• Tumultuous
• Disorderly
• disturbed
• confused
• turbulent
• agitate
• lawless

Related words: (words related to SEDITIOUS)

• MUTINOUS
  Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. The city was becoming mutinous. Macaulay. -- Mu"ti*nous*ly, adv. -- Mu"ti*nous*ness, n.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• RIOTOUS
  1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• TURBULENTLY
  In a turbulent manner.
• SEDITIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words. 2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent;
• CONFUSE
  1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• CONFUSABILITY
  Capability of being confused.
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• TURBULENT
  1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton. 2. Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory;
• INSURRECTIONARY
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.
• REFRACTORY
  1. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Shak. 2. Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• UNRULY
  Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct. But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James iii. 8.
• CONFUSEDLY
  In a confused manner.
• AGITATEDLY
  In an agitated manner.
• CONFUSELY
  Confusedly; obscurely.
• TUMULTUOUS
  1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay. 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. 3. Agitated, as with
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• OVERAGITATE
  To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• INSURGENT
  Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. "The insurgent provinces." Motley.
• FLAGITATE
  To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. Carcyle.
• INCONFUSED
  Not confused; distinct.