reformist

1. 1.

   favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

   Synonymsprogressivereform-minded

   Similarliberal

   government

Other forms of reformist

plural

reformists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reformist

What does reformist mean?

reformist means "a disputant who advocates reform". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reformist?

reformist has 3 syllables: re-for-mist. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈfɔɹmɪst/.

What is another word for reformist?

Close synonyms include reformer, crusader, social reformer, meliorist, progressive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reformist a common word?

reformist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reformist?

2 words rhyme with reformist. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.