seditious

English

Etymology

From Middle French séditieux, from Latin seditiosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈdɪʃəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

seditious (comparative more seditious, superlative most seditious)

1. Of, related to, or being involved in sedition.

   Synonyms: treasonous, subversive, insubordinate, rebellious

   • 2010, Jonathon Keats, Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 112:

     There may not be anything seditious about his music, but plundering and ravaging the tracks needed to create it requires a spirit of rebellion at odds with corporate organization. Enterprise mashup may be an oxymoron.

Derived terms

• nonseditious
• seditious conspiracy
• seditiously
• seditiousness
• unseditious

Translations

of, related to, or involved in sedition

• Catalan: sediciós
• Dutch: opruiend (nl), opstandig (nl)
• French: séditieux (fr) m, séditieuse (fr) f
• German: rebellisch (de), widerspenstig (de), auf Krawall gebürstet
• Hungarian: lázító (hu)
• Latin: sēditiōsus
• Romanian: sedițios (ro) m or n
• Russian: мятежный (ru) (mjatežnyj)
• Spanish: sedicioso (es)
• Ukrainian: крамольний (uk) m (kramolʹnyj), підбурювальний m (pidburjuvalʹnyj), бунтівний (uk) m (buntivnyj)

Further reading

• “seditious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.