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revisionary

revisionary adjective: having the character of a revision.

Adjective

revisionary (comparative more revisionary, superlative most revisionary)

  1. Having the character of a revision.
    • Near-synonym: corrective
    • I conclude that there is good reason to suspect that adverbialist paraphrases are in fact conservative rather than revisionary.2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    corrective

Synonyms of revisionary

Forms of revisionary

comparativemore revisionary
superlativemost revisionary

Origin of revisionary

From revision + -ary.

Words formed from revisionary

Questions about revisionary

What does revisionary mean?
Revisionary means having the character of a revision.
What part of speech is revisionary?
Revisionary is an adjective.

Words near revisionary in the dictionary

  1. revision cloud
  2. revision clouds
  3. revision week
  4. revision weeks
  5. revisional
  6. revisionary
  7. revisioned
  8. revisioning
  9. revisionings
  10. revisionism
  11. revisionisms

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