nihilist

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ni=hil=ist

CIDE DICTIONARY

nihilist, n. [Cf. F. nihiliste. See Nihilism.].

•  One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.  [1913 Webster]
•  A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.  [1913 Webster]

DEVIL DICTIONARY

nihilist

n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

THESAURUS

nihilist

Bolshevik, Cassandra, Eeyore, Jacobin, Wobbly, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, antinomian, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, calamity howler, cannibal, cynic, defeatist, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, extreme left-winger, extremist, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, killjoy, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, malist, man-eater, mild radical, mutineer, negativist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pessimist, pink, pinko, prophet of doom, radical, rebel, red, retreatist, revolutionary, revolutionist, ruiner, sans-culotte, savage, seek-sorrow, shark, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, ultra, ultraist, vandal, wild man, worrywart, wrecker, yippie

ROGET THESAURUS

nihilist

Destroyer

N destroyer &c (destroy), cankerworm, assassin, executioner, biblioclast, eidoloclast, iconoclast, idoloclast, nihilist.

Irreligion

N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.