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revolutionary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun revolutionary has 1 sense
- revolutionary(n = noun.person) revolutionist, subversive, subverter - a radical supporter of political or social revolution; Array has particulars: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist, dynamiter, dynamitist, girondin, girondist, freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel, charlotte corday, corday, marie anne charlotte corday d'armont, danton, georges jacques danton, che guevara, ernesto guevara, guevara, mao, mao tsetung, mao zedong, jean paul marat, marat, jose julian marti, marti, karl marx, marx, comte de mirabeau, honore-gabriel victor riqueti, mirabeau, maxmillien marie isidore de robespierre, robespierre, leon trotsky, lev davidovich bronstein, trotsky, doroteo arango, francisco villa, pancho villa, villa, emiliano zapata, zapata, chou en-lai, zhou en-lai
is a kind of radical
Derived form adjective revolutionary4
Adjective revolutionary has 4 senses
- revolutionary(s = adj.all) radical - markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views" Derived form noun revolution1
- revolutionary(a = adj.pert) rotatory - of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn; Array Derived form noun revolution3
- revolutionary(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era" Derived form noun revolution2
- revolutionary(a = adj.all) Array - advocating or engaged in revolution; "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta" Antonym: counterrevolutionary
Derived form noun revolutionary1
CIDE DICTIONARY
revolutionary, a. [Cf. F. révolutionnaire.].
Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. [1913 Webster]
revolutionary, n.
A revolutionist. [1913 Webster]
"Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
revolutionary, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 involving great and often violent change.
2 of or causing political revolution.
3 (Revolutionary) of or relating to a particular revolution, esp. the War of American Independence.
--n. (pl. -ies) an instigator or supporter of political revolution.
--adj.
1 involving great and often violent change.
2 of or causing political revolution.
3 (Revolutionary) of or relating to a particular revolution, esp. the War of American Independence.
--n. (pl. -ies) an instigator or supporter of political revolution.
THESAURUS
revolutionary
Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fabian, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Mafioso, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, Young Turk, agitator, altered, anarch, anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, antagonistic, antipathetic, authentic, avant-garde, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, better, bomber, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway, brute, cataclysmic, catastrophic, changeable, changed, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, converted, corrective, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, creative, criminal syndicalist, crotchety, degenerate, demon, deviant, devil, different, disorderly, dissident, divergent, dragon, emendatory, extreme, extreme left-winger, extremist, extremistic, factious, fanatic, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, firsthand, fresh, frondeur, fury, goon, gorilla, gradualistic, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hostile, hothead, hotspur, imaginative, improved, incendiary, inimical, innovative, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, killer, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mad dog, madcap, malcontent, maverick, meliorist, melioristic, metamorphosed, metastasized, mild radical, mildly radical, modified, monster, mugger, mutant, mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, new, nihilist, nihilistic, nonconformist, novel, obstreperous, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, original, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, perverse, pink, pinko, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, qualified, rabid, radical, rampant, rapist, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, rebuilt, recalcitrant, red, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformed, reformer, reformist, reformistic, renewed, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revived, revolter, revolutional, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, revulsionary, revulsive, rioter, riotous, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, savage, seditionary, seditious, she-wolf, spitfire, subversive, sweeping, syndicalist, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, traitor, traitorous, transformed, transilient, translated, transmuted, treasonable, turbulent, ugly customer, ultra, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, unbridled, underived, unique, unmitigated, unruly, utopian, utopist, violent, virago, vixen, wild, wild beast, witch, wolf, worse, yippieROGET THESAURUS
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Disobedience
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.Revolution
N revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up, destruction, sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change, change of state, phase change, quantum leap, quantum jump, clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution, jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience, explosion, spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion, storm, earthquake, cataclysm, legerdemain, unrecognizable, revolutionary.
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