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reactionary
Synonyms and Antonyms of reactionary
- Reactionary guardians of proper English usage invariably regard every new coinage that comes along as a nonword.
devoted, faithful, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true, true-blue
neoconservative, Tory, ultraright, ultrarightist
dowdy, fogyish (or fogeyish), fuddy-duddy, ossified, set, stodgy
antiliberal, antimodern, antiprogressive, antireform, antirevolutionary
reactionary
Synonyms and Antonyms of reactionary
- Reactionaries tried to stop the passage of the legislation.
- tended to be a reactionary in his views
antediluvian, fogy (also fogey), fossil, fuddy-duddy, stick-in-the-mud, stuffed shirt
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