reformer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=form=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

reformer, n. 

•  One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reformer, n. a person who advocates or brings about (esp. political or social) reform.

THESAURUS

reformer

Fabian, Tammany man, extremist, machine politician, meliorist, old campaigner, party boss, party chieftain, party leader, pol, political hack, political leader, politician, professional politician, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, radical, reform politician, reformist, revisionist, revolutionary, utopian, utopist, war-horse, wheelhorse

ROGET THESAURUS

reformer

Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.