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revolutionary Adjective 1. of or like a revolution 2. advocating or engaged in revolution 3. radically new or different: they have designed revolutionary new materials to build power stations Noun pl -aries a person who advocates or engages in revolution An individual attempting to effect a social or political change through the use of extreme measures. See also antiterrorism. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
revolutionary adjective 1. rebel, radical, extremist, subversive, insurgent, seditious, mutinous, insurrectionary << OPPOSITE reactionary adjective 2. innovative, new, different, novel, radical, fundamental, progressive, experimental, drastic, avant-garde, ground-breaking, thoroughgoing << OPPOSITE conventional noun 3. rebel, insurgent, mutineer, insurrectionary, revolutionist, insurrectionist << OPPOSITE reactionary Translations revolutionary [rɛvəˈluːʃənrɪ] revolution adj → revolutionär; (leader, army) → Revolutions- n → Revolutionär(in) m(f) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. He, better than any one else, may be taken as a representative of the people of New England, and of the spirit with which they engaged in the Revolutionary struggle. He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc. |
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