Word Study
revolutionary
CIDE DICTIONARY
revolutionary, a. [Cf. F. révolutionnaire.].
Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. [1913 Webster]
revolutionary, n.
A revolutionist. [1913 Webster]
"Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
revolutionary, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 involving great and often violent change.
2 of or causing political revolution.
3 (Revolutionary) of or relating to a particular revolution, esp. the War of American Independence.
--n. (pl. -ies) an instigator or supporter of political revolution.
--adj.
1 involving great and often violent change.
2 of or causing political revolution.
3 (Revolutionary) of or relating to a particular revolution, esp. the War of American Independence.
--n. (pl. -ies) an instigator or supporter of political revolution.
THESAURUS
revolutionary
Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fabian, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Mafioso, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, Young Turk, agitator, altered, anarch, anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, antagonistic, antipathetic, authentic, avant-garde, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, better, bomber, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway, brute, cataclysmic, catastrophic, changeable, changed, clashing, conflicting, 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, factious, fanatic, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, firsthand, fresh, frondeur, fury, goon, gorilla, gradualistic, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hostile, hothead, hotspur, imaginative, improved, incendiary, inimical, innovative, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, killer, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mad dog, madcap, malcontent, 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, qualified, rabid, radical, rampant, rapist, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, rebuilt, recalcitrant, red, 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, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, savage, seditionary, seditious, she-wolf, spitfire, subversive, sweeping, syndicalist, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, traitor, traitorous, transformed, transilient, translated, transmuted, treasonable, turbulent, ugly customer, ultra, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, unbridled, underived, unique, unmitigated, unruly, utopian, utopist, violent, virago, vixen, wild, wild beast, witch, wolf, worse, yippieROGET THESAURUS
revolutionary
Disobedience
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.Revolution
N revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up, destruction, sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change, change of state, phase change, quantum leap, quantum jump, clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution, jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience, explosion, spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion, storm, earthquake, cataclysm, legerdemain, unrecognizable, revolutionary.For further exploring for "revolutionary" in Webster Dictionary Online