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Adjective: revolutionary  ,re-vu'loo-shu,ne-ree [N. Amer], ,re-vu'loo-shu-n(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. Markedly new or introducing fundamental change
    "a revolutionary discovery";
    - radical
     
  2. Relating to or having the nature of a revolution
    "the Revolutionary era"; "revolutionary wars"
     
  3. Advocating or engaged in revolution
    "revolutionary pamphlets"; "a revolutionary junta"
     
  4. Of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn
    "The revolutionary motion of the Earth causes day and night";
    - rotatory
Noun: revolutionary  ,re-vu'loo-shu,ne-ree [N. Amer], ,re-vu'loo-shu-n(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. A radical supporter of political or social revolution
    "The young revolutionary distributed pamphlets calling for the overthrow of the government";
    - revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Derived forms: revolutionaries

See also: new

Type of: rad [informal], radical

Antonym: counterrevolutionary

Encyclopedia: Revolutionary, The