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

Assad and his brother Maher fled to Russia after insurgents marched into Damascus in December 2014. — ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Tuesday’s primaries refused to settle into one of the storylines written in the weeks after Colorado’s primaries, where insurgents in both parties wildly overperformed. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026

One of the insurgents, a doctoral student in sociology named Darializa Avila Chevalier, is far more emblematic of the DSA’s radicalism. — James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026

So far though, the prediction market insurgents have not meaningfully cut into sportsbook profits. — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 17 July 2026

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