counterrevolutionary

Speech parts

1. counterrevolutionary - Noun

2. counterrevolutionary - Adjective

Meaning

a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution

marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution

relating to or being a counterrevolution

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

counterrevolutionist rebel royalist traditionalist pacifist monarchist retrogressive obscurantist mossback right-winger rightist ultraconservative obscurant regressive counter-revolutionist

Antonyms

revolutionary liberalist left wing broad-minded left-winger left-of-center
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Hypernyms

revolutionary subversive revolutionist subverter

Examples

Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments. Saddam Hussein

Facts are counterrevolutionary. Eric Hoffer

To think for oneself is not only, as Gide said, counterrevolutionary but also apostasy and, at certain times, treason. Eric Hoffer

Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against the Revolution. Novalis

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975. José Saramago

We will secure peace, over the corpses of the counterrevolutionary command staff if necessary. Nikolai Krylenko

Close letter words and terms

counterreversal counterrevisionist counterrevolution counterrevolutionaryism counterrevolutionist counterrevolutionize