- terrorist
- n1. desperado, gunman, gangster, criminal, mafioso, (in Paris) apache; thug, tough, mugger, ruffian, rowdy, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, roughneck, Inf. baddy, Australian Si. larrikin, Brit. Hist. Mohock.2. highwayman, footpad, Sl. yegg or yeggman, bandit, Sp. bandolero. outlaw, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian. bushranger, brigand; picaroon, rogue, (in India and Burma) dacoit.3. revolutionary, insurgent, rebel, subversive; nihilist, anarchist, destroyer, radical, Derog. Bolshevik; incendiary, arsonist.4. abductor, kidnapper; hijacker, skyjacker, sky or air priate; assassin, bravo, murderer.5. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer; freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish highlands) cateran; pillager, plunderer, marauder, despoiler, depredator, ransacker, sacker, looter, rifler, forager, raider.6. malefactor, miscreant, villain, hellhound, fiend, knave, blackguard; lawbreaker, felon, cutthroat, murderer, robber, thief.7. bully, browbeater, hector, intimidator, Sl. bulldozer, Inf. terror; coercer, dictator, despot, tyrant.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.