counterrevolutionary

American  

[koun-ter-rev-uh-loo-shuh-ner-ee] / ˈkaʊn tərˌrɛv əˈlu ʃəˌnɛr i /

adjective

1. characteristic of or resulting from a counterrevolution.

2. opposing a revolution or revolutionary government.

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noun

plural

counterrevolutionaries

1. Also counterrevolutionist a person who advocates or engages in a counterrevolution.

Etymology

Origin of counterrevolutionary

First recorded in 1790–1800; counterrevolution + -ary

Example Sentences

Historians widely interpret such violence as a counterrevolutionary response to the strength of socialist and labor movements after the First World War.

From Salon

But he brings out the idiosyncratic joys of the Mets roster—even its counterrevolutionary cliques.

From The Wall Street Journal

More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.”

From New York Times

For six of those years, he was persecuted as a counterrevolutionary.

From New York Times

The charges were similarly absurd, that he had been a member of a counterrevolutionary organization and sabotaged the collective farm’s work.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• archconservative
• regressive
• rightist
• ultraconservative