Reformist

Quick meaning: Reformist is an adjective meaning (politics) Advocating reform of an institution or body.

Meaning

(politics) Advocating reform of an institution or body.

More Meanings

1. Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
2. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
3. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
4. (religion) A member of a reformed religious denomination.
5. (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
6. (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)

Example Sentences

[...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.

Word Forms

• reformists

Synonyms for reformist

Depending on context, synonyms include crusader, meliorist, resister, liberal, progressive, reformer.

Antonyms for reformist

Common opposites include revolutionary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reformer, progressive, liberal, crusader, meliorist, resister.

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