meliorist

noun

a disputant who advocates reform

• Syn: ↑reformer, ↑reformist, ↑crusader, ↑social reformer

• Derivationally related forms: ↑meliorism, ↑crusade (for: ↑crusader), ↑reformist (for: ↑reformist), ↑reformism (for: ↑reformist), ↑reform (for: ↑reformist), ↑reform (for: ↑reformer)

• Hypernyms: ↑disputant, ↑controversialist, ↑eristic

• Hyponyms:

↑abolitionist, ↑emancipationist, ↑birth-control campaigner, ↑birth-control reformer, ↑Chartist, ↑civil rights leader, ↑civil rights worker, ↑civil rights activist, ↑demonstrator, ↑protester, ↑dry, ↑prohibitionist, ↑environmentalist, ↑conservationist, ↑feminist, ↑women's rightist, ↑women's liberationist, ↑libber, ↑hippie, ↑hippy, ↑hipster, ↑flower child, ↑insurgent, ↑insurrectionist, ↑freedom fighter, ↑rebel, ↑militant, ↑activist, ↑non-resistant, ↑passive resister, ↑preservationist, ↑Utopian

• Instance Hyponyms:

↑Comstock, ↑Anthony Comstock, ↑Dix, ↑Dorothea Dix, ↑Dorothea Lynde Dix, ↑Huss, ↑John Huss, ↑Hus, ↑Jan Hus, ↑Owen, ↑Robert Owen, ↑Savonarola, ↑Girolamo Savonarola, ↑Townsend, ↑Francis Everett Townsend, ↑Wilkes, ↑John Wilkes