revolutionary

²revolutionary

noun

plural revolutionar·ies

Definition of REVOLUTIONARY

1

: one engaged in a revolution

2

: an advocate or adherent of revolutionary doctrines

Examples of REVOLUTIONARY

1. <after the collapse of the Russian monarchy, the moderate socialists briefly governed until being overthrown by the Bolshevik revolutionaries>
2. <at first the government was not worried about this small band of unarmed revolutionaries>

First Known Use of REVOLUTIONARY

1850

Related to REVOLUTIONARY

Synonyms: crazy, extremist, radical, revolutionist

Antonyms: middle-of-the-roader, moderate

Related Words: young Turk; leftist, lefty, red; progressive, reformer, reformist; anarch, anarchist, subversive; agitator, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel; secessionist, separationist, separatist

Near Antonyms: conservative, fuddy-duddy, reactionary, rightist, standpatter, Tory, traditionalist

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Other Government and Politics Terms

agent provocateur, agitprop, autarky, cabal, egalitarianism, federalism, hegemony, plenipotentiary, popular sovereignty, socialism