terrorist

Meanings

Noun

• A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
• An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.

Adjective

• Of or relating to terrorism.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• lone wolfer

Origin

• From French terroriste; synchronically terror + -ist. First used by Edmund Burke.