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Adjective: counterrevolutionary  'kawn-tu(r),re-vu'loo-shu,ne-ree [N. Amer], ,kawn-tu,re-vu'loo-shu-n(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. Relating to or being a counterrevolution
    "The counterrevolutionary forces attempted to restore the old regime"
     
  2. Marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution
    "ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies"
Noun: counterrevolutionary  'kawn-tu(r),re-vu'loo-shu,ne-ree [N. Amer], ,kawn-tu,re-vu'loo-shu-n(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. A revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
    "The counterrevolutionary sought to restore the old regime";
    - counterrevolutionist, counter-revolutionist

Derived forms: counterrevolutionaries

Type of: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Antonym: revolutionary

Encyclopedia: Counterrevolutionary