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revolutionary [ˌrɛvəˈluːʃənərɪ] n pl -aries (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who advocates or engages in revolution adj 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) relating to or characteristic of a revolution 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) advocating or engaged in revolution 3. radically new or different a revolutionary method of making plastics 4. rotating or revolving revolutionarily adv Revolutionary [ˌrɛvəˈluːʃənərɪ] adj 1. (Historical Terms) Chiefly US of or relating to the conflict or period of the War of American Independence (1775-83) 2. (Historical Terms) of or relating to any of various other Revolutions, esp the Russian Revolution (1917) or the French Revolution (1789) 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 Do you know anything about the revolutionary movement? rebel loyalist, reactionary, counter-revolutionary 2. innovative, new, different, novel, radical, fundamental, progressive, experimental, drastic, avant-garde, ground-breaking, thoroughgoing His trumpet-playing was quite revolutionary. innovative conservative, traditional, conventional, mainstream, trivial noun rebel, insurgent, mutineer, insurrectionary, revolutionist, insurrectionist The revolutionaries laid down their arms. rebel loyalist, reactionary, counter-revolutionary Quotations "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution" [Hannah Arendt] Translations revolutionary [ˌrɛvəˈluːʃənəri] adj [leader, movement] → révolutionnaire [idea, concept, change] → révolutionnaire n → révolutionnaire mf revolutionary adj (lit, fig) → revolutionär; revolutionary government → Revolutionsregierung f; revolutionary leader → Revolutionsführer(in) m(f) n → Revolutionär(in) m(f), → Revoluzzer(in) m(f) (pej) revolutionary [ˌrɛvəˈluːʃn/ərɪ] adj & n → rivoluzionario/a revolutionary [ˌrɛvəˈluːʃn/ərɪ] adj & n → rivoluzionario/a 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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