revolutionary : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: revolutionary	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for revolutionary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
revolutionary adj markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views" Synonym(s): revolutionary, radical of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn Synonym(s): rotatory, revolutionary relating to or having the nature of a revolution; "revolutionary wars"; "the Revolutionary era" advocating or engaged in revolution; "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta" Antonym(s): counterrevolutionary n a radical supporter of political or social revolution [syn: revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revolutionary \Rev`olu"tionary\, a. [Cf. F. r[82]volutionnaire.] Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary* war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revolutionary \Rev`olu"tiona*ry\, n. A revolutionist. [R.] Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. --Prof. Wilson.