Synonyms of insurgents

insurgents

noun

plural of insurgent

as in rebels

a person who rises up against authority

the government subjected the insurgents to the most inhuman torture imaginable

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rebels
• revolutionaries
• revolters
• insurrectionists
• mutineers
• revolutionists
• insurrectionaries
• reds
• challengers
• anarchists
• oppositionists
• resisters
• extremists
• resistants
• radicals
• discontents
• recusants
• refusers
• insubordinates
• defiers
• anarchs
• malcontents

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• supporters
• patriots
• loyalists
• counterrevolutionaries
• counterinsurgents
• counterrevolutionists

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of insurgents

According to Chaudhry, insurgents have carried out three major attacks across the province since Monday. — Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

The establishment’s theory of the case has always been that popular insurgents are too risky, too unpolished, too outside the lane. — Tad Devine, Fortune, 7 July 2026

Fujimori, 51, is the daughter of late President Alberto Fujimori, who governed the country ​with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 and was credited with defeating Maoist insurgents and taming runaway hyperinflation. — Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026

Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long seen clashes between security forces, insurgents and drug smugglers. — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 30 June 2026

Nine American soldiers died and 27 others were injured while fighting a battle against 200 Taliban insurgents in the village of Wanat in Afghanistan’s Waygal Valley. — USA Today, 29 June 2026

As left-wing insurgents make inroads in New York and elsewhere, their campaigns are confronting legacy institutions led by people of color. — ABC News, 28 June 2026

But Warsaw and Kyiv are locked in a row over Ukraine renaming a military unit after World War II insurgents that killed thousands of Poles. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 25 June 2026

The incumbents built their dominance in a training-centric world that is giving way to an inference-centric one, and that transition is where insurgents find room. — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026