Other forms: activists
An activist is a person who fights publicly for a cause they believe in. A climate activist, human rights activist, lifelong activist.
It covers everything from organising and campaigning to civil disobedience, and it is used both admiringly and dismissively depending on who is speaking. In law, judicial activism is the criticism that judges are making policy rather than applying law. Note activism; and that the word is only about a century old, which is younger than most of the causes it describes.
1nounactivistA person who fights publicly for a cause.
“Climate activists chained themselves to the gates of the power station.”
activist is a campaigner.
Also accepted in games: campaigner
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eǵ-
Middle English
actyf
English
active
English, today
activist
Built from
From active + -ist. active comes from Middle English actyf. From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin activus, from ago (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂éǵeti. by surface analysis, en + act + ive.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA