Counterrevolutionary

Quick meaning: Counterrevolutionary is a noun meaning (history) Marked by opposition or antipathy to a current or earlier revolution.

Meaning

(history) Marked by opposition or antipathy to a current or earlier revolution.

More Meanings

1. In opposition to a revolution.
2. A person who opposes a revolution and attempts to reverse the changes made by it.

Example Sentences

Two “counterrevolutionaries” were sentenced to death and executed publicly before cheering thousands in Shanghai Aug. 28, according to a Shanghai radio report received in Tokyo today.

To go back in time, as it were, the counterrevolutionary bloc—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, and their allies in Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere—believes the future must be more authoritarian than ever.

In early 1990, he was sentenced to two years by the Loudi Prefecture Intermediate Court on a charge of "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement." He was then sent to Longxi Prison for reform through labor, and has since been released.

It seems likely that states in the Middle East and North Africa could divide into three camps. […] In the second, Egypt and Tunisia will struggle to realize their revolutionary promise and ideals while resisting the counterrevolutionary forces of the old regimes.

Word Forms

• counter-revolutionary
• counterrevolutionaries

Synonyms for counterrevolutionary

Depending on context, synonyms include counterrevolutionist.

Antonyms for counterrevolutionary

Common opposites include revolutionary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include counterrevolutionist, counter-revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, contrarevolutionary, counterrevisionist, antirebellion.

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