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revolutionary
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of REVOLUTIONARY
1
a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government <after the collapse of the Russian monarchy, the moderate socialists briefly governed until being overthrown by the Bolshevik revolutionaries>
Related Words young Turk; leftist, lefty, red; progressive, reformer, reformist; anarch, anarchist, subversive; agitator, insurgent, insurrectionist, rebel; secessionist, separationist, separatist
Antonyms middle-of-the-roader, moderate
2
a person who rises up against authority <at first the government was not worried about this small band of unarmed revolutionaries>
Synonyms insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, red, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist
Related Words challenger, defier, insubordinate, oppositionist, recusant, refuser, resistant, resister; anarch, anarchist; discontent, extremist, malcontent, radical
Near Antonyms loyalist, patriot, supporter; counterinsurgent, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist
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