nonrevolutionary
adjective
non·rev·o·lu·tion·ary
ˌnän-ˌre-və-ˈlü-shə-ˌner-ē 
: not revolutionary: such as
a
: not of, relating to, or constituting a revolution
a nonrevolutionary era
Even by nonrevolutionary standards, riots in England were not all that riotous, as another historian has observed.—
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb
b
: not favoring or promoting revolution
nonrevolutionary middle class attitudes
c
: not constituting or bringing about a major or fundamental change
a welcome but nonrevolutionary innovation
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Their school, an extension of conversations held in their kitchen, was designed to achieve that single, nonrevolutionary goal.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2022
But during the Cultural Revolution the genre was banned, along with other nonrevolutionary literature, and even science itself was subjected to ideological-purity tests.
—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2022
But during the Cultural Revolution the genre was banned, along with other nonrevolutionary literature, and even science itself was subjected to ideological-purity tests.
—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
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“Nonrevolutionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonrevolutionary. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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