subversive
adjective/səbˈvɜːsɪv/
/səbˈvɜːrsɪv/
- trying or likely to destroy or damage a government or political system by attacking it secretly or indirectly synonym seditious
- subversive activities
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- consider something
- deem something
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Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin subversivus, from the verb subvertere, from sub- ‘from below’ + vertere ‘to turn’.Definitions on the go
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