nihilist

/ˌnɑɪəˈlɪst/

Other forms: nihilists

If you reject all moral beliefs and take the view that life has no meaning, you could be called a nihilist.

Someone who is a nihilist is a believer of nihilism which literally means "nothingism." They believe in nothing, maintaining that life has no meaning and rejecting all moral and religious values as well as political and social institutions. A movie in which human beings are shown as fundamentally evil creatures doomed to fail might be said to have nihilist themes.

Definitions of nihilist

1. noun

   someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief
   type of:

   nonreligious person

   a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity
2. noun

   an advocate of anarchism
   synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist

   examples:

   Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

   Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876)

   Emma Goldman

   United States anarchist (born in Russia) who opposed conscription; was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 (1869-1940)

   Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

   Russian anarchist (1842-1921)

   Nicola Sacco

   United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927)

   Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

   United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939)

   Bartolomeo Vanzetti

   United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Nicola Sacco was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1888-1927)

   type of:

   radical

   a person who has radical ideas or opinions