Revolutionary - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˌrevəˈluːʃənerɪ|  American pronunciation of the word revolutionary
Brit.  |revəˈluːʃ(ə)n(ə)rɪ|  British pronunciation of the word revolutionary

noun

- a radical supporter of political or social revolution (syn: revolutionist, subversive)

adjective

- markedly new or introducing radical change (syn: radical)
a revolutionary discovery

Extra examples

...a candidate with a lot of crazy, revolutionary ideas that no one seems to be going for...

...revolutionary forces that were soundly defeated before reaching the capital...

...after the collapse of the Russian monarchy, the moderate socialists briefly governed until being overthrown by the Bolshevik revolutionaries...

...at first the government was not worried about this small band of unarmed revolutionaries...

The new cancer drug is a revolutionary breakthrough.

...what are the antecedents of the American Revolutionary War?...

She looks more like a farmer's wife than a revolutionary.

He insists that he is a revolutionary not a common criminal.

'Land and Liberty' was the rallying cry of revolutionary Mexico.

It's revolutionary music; it departs from the old form and structures.

The region, with its widespread poverty, provided fertile ground for revolutionary activitists.

The revolutionary movement was crushed by the forces of reaction.

The novel captures the revolutionary fervor of the period.

Wolfe's theories were revolutionary and iconoclastic.

This product was touted as a revolutionary invention

Word forms

noun
singular: revolutionary
plural: revolutionaries
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