Counterrevolutionary

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  • adjective. In opposition to a revolution
  • noun. A person who opposes a revolution and attempts to reverse the changes made by it
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  • noun. a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
  • adjective. relating to or being a counterrevolution
  • adjective. marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution
  • Word Usage
    "If there's a war -- and some blogs troublingly trash professional standards as quaint and archaic, like communists denouncing anything "counterrevolutionary" -- the blogheads may have won, at least for now."
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