Reactionary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reactionary \Re*ac"tion*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Reactionaries}
     (-r[i^]z).
     One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress
     or revolution.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reactionary \Re*ac"tion*a*ry\ (-[asl]*r[y^]), a.
     Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary
     movements.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reactionary
       adj : extremely conservative [syn: {reactionist}, {far-right}]
       n : an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or
           liberalism [syn: {ultraconservative}, {extreme
           right-winger}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  170 Moby Thesaurus words for "reactionary":
     Bircher, Bourbon, Colonel Blimp, Epistle side, Methuselah, Tory,
     antagonistic, antediluvian, antipathetic, antiphonal, antique,
     atavistic, back number, bellyacher, bitter-ender, blimp, breakaway,
     clashing, clockwise, complainant, complainer, conflicting,
     conservatist, conservative, contradicting, contradictory,
     counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing,
     counterworking, crab, crank, cranky, croaker, crotchety, dad,
     decanal side, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral,
     dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal,
     dextrorotary, dextrorse, die-hard, diehard, dissident, dodo, elder,
     extreme right-winger, faultfinder, fogy, fogyish, fossil, frondeur,
     fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, griper, grouch, grouser, growler,
     grumbler, hard hat, has-been, hostile, imperialist, inimical,
     intransigent, kicker, kvetch, longhair, malcontent, matriarch,
     mid-Victorian, monarchist, mossback, murmurer, mutterer,
     nonconformist, nonprogressive, off, old believer, old crock,
     old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman,
     old-line, old-timer, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, orthodox,
     patriarch, perverse, pop, pops, querulous person, radical right,
     reacting, reactionarist, reactionist, reactive, rebel,
     recalcitrant, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, recto, reflex,
     reflexive, refluent, regressive, regular old fogy, relic, renitent,
     repugnant, resistant, respondent, responding, responsive,
     retroactionary, retroactive, retrocessive, retrograde,
     retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible,
     reversional, reversionary, revertible, revolutionary, revulsionary,
     revulsive, right, right field, right hand, right of center,
     right side, right wing, right-hand, right-wing, right-winger,
     right-wingish, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, sorehead,
     square, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, starets,
     tory, traditionalist, traditionalistic, ultraconservative,
     unprogressive, whiner, white