Antonyms for revolutionary

Grammar : Adj

Spell : rev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˌrɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i

Definition of revolutionary

Origin : 1774; see revolution + -ary. As a noun, from 1850 (cf revolutionist).

adj rebellious
adj new, progressive

Example sentences :

He led America out of revolutionary victory into infant nationhood.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

The latter was as evolutionary and as revolutionary as the Home Rule Bill.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

It would be revolutionary so to do by a simple vote of this body.
Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 7. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

We had a passenger, who passed for some revolutionary man, who also landed secretly.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

I questioned them, and learnt that revolutionary troubles were beginning in Paris.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Nobody, even in revolutionary France, imagines that it will work.
Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry

That dinner must have marked the height of the revolutionary tide in England.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

They were latent in all the thinking of the revolutionary period.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

The revolutionary difficulties in the State of Oaxaca, have not yet been settled.
Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various

In those two phrases lies all the power of revolutionary faith.
Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos

Synonyms for revolutionary

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