Crossword-Solution: NIHILIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nihilist | n. | One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist. |
| Nihilist | n. | A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “NIHILIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Think nothing of it" sayer? | 1 answer |
| Complete disbeliever | 1 answer |
| someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief | 1 answer |
| Ultimate nonbeliever | 1 answer |
| Russian adherent of anarchy. | 1 answer |
| One whose guiding philosophy is "What does it matter?" | 1 answer |
| One who might say "Nothing is real" | 1 answer |
| One rejecting all values, beliefs in existence | 1 answer |
| Believer that life is meaningless | 1 answer |
| Believer in nothing | 1 answer |
| Believer in mob rule | 1 answer |
| Believer in anarchy | 1 answer |
| Advocate of violent revolution. | 1 answer |
| "Why even bother" type | 1 answer |
| BIASED person | 12 answers |
| ringleader | 12 answers |
| Unbeliever | 25 answers |
| propagandist | 27 answers |
| Freethinker | 34 answers |
| reformer | 35 answers |
| Individualist | 39 answers |
| firebrand | 45 answers |
| Zealot | 48 answers |
| destroyer | 49 answers |
| guerrilla | 55 answers |
| Revolutionary? | 65 answers |
| Oddball | 83 answers |
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Sentences with NIHILIST (5)
Guards were placed at all the gates, especially those leading to the palace, and every possible effort was made to identify the nihilist.
Fur Doctor Kirby, he says, winking at me: "Looey, here, is a nihilist." "Is he," says I, "what's that?" And the doctor tells me about how they blow up dukes and czars and them foreign high-mucky-mucks with dynamite.
Maupassant has been called a literary nihilist--but (and this is the second trait of his singular genius) in him nihilism finds itself coexistent with an animal energy so fresh and so intense that for a long time it deceives the closest observer.
Some said he was a Nihilist escaping; others set him down for a harmless spendthrift, who had squandered fifty thousand roubles, and whose father had now despatched him to America by way of penance.
Count Rouvaloff was supposed to be writing a life of Peter the Great, and to have come over to England for the purpose of studying the documents relating to that Tsar’s residence in this country as a ship carpenter; but it was generally suspected that he was a Nihilist agent, and there was no doubt that the Russian Embassy did not look with any favour upon his presence in London.
Quotes with NIHILIST (3)
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of course, not only of war and revolution, but also of practically everything else that lays claim to being "modern" and "progressive." We have already cited the most striking forms of Nihilist Vitalism, whose cumulative effect has been to uproot, disintegrate, and "mobilize" the individual, to substitute for his normal stability a…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).