'Revolutionary' definitions:
Definition of 'revolutionary'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views" [syn: revolutionary, radical]
adjective
Of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn [syn: rotatory, revolutionary]
adjective
Relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era"
adjective
Advocating or engaged in revolution; "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta" [ant: counterrevolutionary]
noun
A radical supporter of political or social revolution [syn: revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter]
Definition of 'Revolutionary'
From: GCIDE
- Revolutionary \Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]volutionnaire.] Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Revolutionary'
From: GCIDE
- Revolutionary \Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry\, n. A revolutionist. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'revolutionary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agitator,
- altered,
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- anarchistic,
- anarcho-syndicalist,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- authentic,
- avant-garde,
- beast,
- beldam,
- berserk,
- berserker,
- better,
- Bolshevik,
- Bolshevist,
- Bolshie,
- bomber,
- bonnet rouge,
- brawler,
- breakaway,
- brute,
- Carbonarist,
- Carbonaro,
- Castroist,
- Castroite,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- changeable,
- changed,
- Charley,
- clashing,
- Communist,
- conflicting,
- Cong,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- converted,
- corrective,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- creative,
- criminal syndicalist,
- crotchety,
- degenerate,
- demon,
- deviant,
- devil,
- different,
- disorderly,
- dissident,
- divergent,
- dragon,
- emendatory,
- extreme,
- extreme left-winger,
- extremist,
- extremistic,
- Fabian,
- factious,
- fanatic,
- Fenian,
- fiend,
- fire-eater,
- firebrand,
- firsthand,
- fresh,
- frondeur,
- fury,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- gradualistic,
- Guevarist,
- gunsel,
- hardnose,
- hell-raiser,
- hellcat,
- hellhound,
- hellion,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hostile,
- hothead,
- hotspur,
- imaginative,
- improved,
- incendiary,
- inimical,
- innovative,
- insubordinate,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- Jacobin,
- killer,
- left-wing extremist,
- Leninist,
- lunatic fringe,
- mad dog,
- madcap,
- Mafioso,
- malcontent,
- Maoist,
- Marxist,
- Mau-Mau,
- maverick,
- meliorist,
- melioristic,
- metamorphosed,
- metastasized,
- mild radical,
- mildly radical,
- modified,
- monster,
- mugger,
- mutant,
- mutineer,
- mutineering,
- mutinous,
- new,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- nonconformist,
- novel,
- obstreperous,
- opposing,
- oppositional,
- oppugnant,
- original,
- parlor Bolshevik,
- parlor pink,
- perverse,
- pink,
- pinko,
- progressionist,
- progressist,
- progressive,
- progressivist,
- Puritan,
- qualified,
- rabid,
- radical,
- rampant,
- rapist,
- reactionary,
- rebel,
- rebellious,
- rebuilt,
- recalcitrant,
- Red,
- red,
- Red Republican,
- reformational,
- reformative,
- reformatory,
- reformed,
- reformer,
- reformist,
- reformistic,
- renewed,
- renitent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- revisional,
- revisionist,
- revisory,
- revived,
- revolter,
- revolutional,
- revolutionary junta,
- revolutioner,
- revolutionist,
- revolutionizer,
- revulsionary,
- revulsive,
- rioter,
- riotous,
- Roundhead,
- sans-culotte,
- sans-culottist,
- savage,
- seditionary,
- seditious,
- she-wolf,
- Sinn Feiner,
- spitfire,
- subversive,
- sweeping,
- syndicalist,
- termagant,
- terror,
- terrorist,
- tiger,
- tigress,
- tough,
- tough guy,
- traitor,
- traitorous,
- transformed,
- transilient,
- translated,
- transmuted,
- treasonable,
- Trotskyist,
- Trotskyite,
- turbulent,
- ugly customer,
- ultra,
- ultraconservative,
- ultraist,
- ultraistic,
- unbridled,
- underived,
- unique,
- unmitigated,
- unruly,
- utopian,
- utopist,
- VC,
- Vietcong,
- violent,
- virago,
- vixen,
- wild,
- wild beast,
- witch,
- Wobbly,
- wolf,
- worse,
- Yankee,
- Yankee Doodle,
- yippie,
- Young Turk
Words containing 'Revolutionary'
- revolutionary calendar,
- revolutionary group,
- american revolutionary leader,
- american revolutionary war,
- arab revolutionary brigades,
- fatah revolutionary council,
- revolutionary calendar month,
- revolutionary justice organization,
- revolutionary people's struggle,
- revolutionary proletarian army,
- revolutionary proletarian nucleus,
- revolutionary united front,
- revolutionary armed forces of colombia,
- revolutionary organization 17 november,
- revolutionary organization of socialist muslims,
- revolutionary people's liberation front,
- revolutionary people's liberation party,
- revolutionary proletarian initiative nuclei,
- tupac amaru revolutionary movement