Word family noun form formation transformation reformer reform reformation reformist transformer formlessness adjective reformed reformist formless verb form reform transform adverb formlessly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishreformistre‧form‧ist /rɪˈfɔːmɪst $ -ɔːr-/ adjective PPPwanting to change systems or situations, especially in politics the reformist wing of the party —reformist noun [countable]Examples from the Corpus
reformist• Deng, who had been urging Kim for years to follow his reformist example, encouraged him anew.• Hardliners in the judiciary then began to jail reformist journalists.• Against this background, the muzzling of 16 reformist newspapers can only be seen as an assault on popular sovereignty.• The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.• Father Georgi Kochetkov is a reformist priest who, after being excommunicated in 1997, has been received back into the church.• Intellectuals, persecuted horribly under Mao, came back as advisers to the reformist rulers.• But the deeper imprint of the central authority, and the harsher side to its reformist zeal, left scars. 