nihilist


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Synonyms for nihilist

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for nihilist

someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief

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an advocate of anarchism

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Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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As a nihilist Trump is the embodiment of what evangelicals are supposed
If PCI Jovie Espenido will continue his nihilist campaign against alleged illegal drug personalities, then the mayor is not safe,' Villarin said.
But each item holds a clue that sends him across the city and into alliances with a British artist-turned-taxidermist and with a drug dealer and his vicious muscle, and threatens his long friendships with a nihilist baker and a detective assigned to investigate the very thefts Tancred is carrying out.
Chris Gascoyne and David Neilson, known to Coronation Street fans as Peter Barlow and Roy Cropper, came to Glasgow determined to tempt soap lovers into the doomy world of Ireland's most famous nihilist playwright.
I recalled the news last year that Britain had sold PS4.5 billion of arms to Riyadh and that it was surmised that much of these had ended up in the hands of the head-chopping nihilist monsters Isis.
Cotard's Syndrome (CS) is a rare clinical event, characterized by negation delusion (or nihilist), generally regarding the body (frequently the patient believes that he or she does not have one or more organs) or regarding the existence (the individual judges that himself or everybody in the world is dead or reduced to nothing, being able to judge himself a zombie), but also concerning concepts/conditions [1] (such as a CS case described in which a woman was sure about not being pregnant, despite of obvious evidences [2]).
Supposedly an artist, an anarchist, a nihilist, the residue of a Marxist."
It has some very decent supporters, many of whom are very concerned and engaged citizens, but it also has a nihilist, hysterical leadership."
The other is Ted Cruz, who PK describes as "a nihilist," criticizing the Texan's "whole concept of shutting the government down and also this dogmatic opposition to any type of compromise."
In his otherwise fine article about Maurice Cowling ["Tory Nihilist," Jan./Feb.], Matthew Walther makes a slighting reference to me which I'd like to correct.
We must wonder, however, whether such a Darwinian natural philosophy is inherently--and fatally--reductionist and nihilist.
"The Last Film of Alan Smithee" might be the best video game story in print, with a narrator dictating the action that so obsesses him--a game that offers three venue choices: "'Vichy,' 'KKK,' or 'Vietnam.'" Is Blackwell a satirist, an escapist, a nihilist? He's a poet-critic, folding his philosophy into triumphant malapropisms.
The court also heard he described himself as a 'nihilist' and had been stealing items from people at the university only to return them.