DIVERSIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diversionist mean? 

• DIVERSIONIST (noun)
  The noun DIVERSIONIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

  Familiarity information: DIVERSIONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERSIONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker

Hypernyms ("diversionist" is a kind of...):

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diversionist"):

sleeper (a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal)

Derivation:

diversion (a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern))