revolutionary
UK/ˌɹɛvəˈluːʃənɹi//ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/
revolutionary adjective: of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution.
Adjective
revolutionary (comparative more revolutionary, superlative most revolutionary)
- Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution
- revolutionary war
- revolutionary measures
- Synonyms:
- Jacobinic, Jacobinical
- Of or pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset
- a revolutionary new tool
- Of or pertaining to something that revolves.
Noun
revolutionary (plural revolutionaries)
- A revolutionist; a person who revolts.
- "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down...1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88
Proper noun capitalized: Revolutionary
Revolutionary
- Chopin's 'Revolutionary Etude' Op. 10 no. 12.
revolutionary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
revolutionary in Hindi
- of or pertaining to a revolution in government
- क्रांतिकारी krāntikārī, इंक़िलाबी iṅqilābī, इंक़लाबी iṅqlābī
- a revolutionist; a person who revolts
- क्रांतिकारी krāntikārī, इंक़लाबी iṅqlābī, क्रांतिकारक krāntikārak, परिवर्तनवादी parivartanvādī
revolutionary in Tamil
- புரட்சியான, புரட்சியாளர்
revolutionary in Marathi
- क्रांतिकारी, क्रांतिकारक, क्रांतीकारी
revolutionary in Urdu
- of or pertaining to a revolution in government
- اِنْقِلابی inqilābī
More languagesFewer languages
- revolutionary in Bengali
- ইনকিলাবি inkilabi, বিপ্লবী biplôbi
- revolutionary in Telugu
- విప్లవాత్మక, విప్లవాత్మకమైనవి, విప్లవాత్మకమైనది
- revolutionary in Malayalam
- വിപ്ലവകാരി viplavakāri
- revolutionary in Kannada
- ಕ್ರಾಂತಿವಾದಿ, ಕ್ರಾಂತಿಕಾರಿ, ಬಂಡಾಯಗಾರ, ಕ್ರಾಂತಿಯ
- revolutionary in Punjabi
- ਇਨਕਲਾਬੀ inaklābī, اِنْقِلابی īnqilābī
- revolutionary in Gujarati
- ઈંકલાબી ī̃kalābī
- revolutionary in Odia
- ବିପ୍ଳବୀ, ବୈପ୍ଳବିକ, ବିପ୍ଳବକାରୀ
- revolutionary in Nepali
- क्रान्तिकारी, क्रान्तिकारक
- revolutionary in Pashto
- انقلابي enqelābí
- revolutionary in Tagalog
- rebolusyonaryo
- revolutionary in Arabic
- ثَوْرِيّ ṯawriyy, ثَوْرِيَّة ṯawriyya
- revolutionary in Malay
- revolusioner
- revolutionary in Thai
- นักปฏิวัติ nák-bpà-dtì-wát
- revolutionary in Vietnamese
- nhà cách mạng
- revolutionary in Myanmar
- တော်လှန်ရေးသမား tauhlanre:sa.ma:
- Kashmiri
- اِنقلٲبؠ inqlạ̄b', इंक़लऻब्य iṃqalạ̄by
Examples of revolutionary in a sentence
- revolutionary agitators
- In 1885, one hundred and ten years after the American Declaration of Independence, a young Chinese medical doctor named Sun Yat-sen began preaching his revolutionary principles.1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and...
Synonyms of revolutionary
Forms of revolutionary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more revolutionary |
| superlative | most revolutionary |
| Noun | |
| plural | revolutionaries |
Origin of revolutionary
Compare French révolutionnaire; equivalent to revolution + -ary.
Words formed from revolutionary
- anterevolutionary
- antirevolutionary
- café revolutionary
- contrarevolutionary
- counterrevolutionary
- French Revolutionary Time
- nonrevolutionary
- permanent revolutionary
- postrevolutionary
- prerevolutionary
- prorevolutionary
- pseudorevolutionary
- resolutionary
- revolutionarily
- revolutionariness
- revolutionarity
- revolutionary site
- Socialist-Revolutionary
- Socialist Revolutionary
- ultrarevolutionary
- unrevolutionary
Phrases with revolutionary
Questions about revolutionary
- What does revolutionary mean?
- Revolutionary means of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution.
- What is revolutionary in Hindi?
- Revolutionary in Hindi is क्रांतिकारी (krāntikārī), इंक़िलाबी (iṅqilābī), इंक़लाबी (iṅqlābī). See Revolutionary meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use revolutionary in a sentence?
- revolutionary agitators
- What part of speech is revolutionary?
- Revolutionary can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce revolutionary?
- Revolutionary is pronounced /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/ (US).
Words near revolutionary in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: revolutionary (page history and authors); Revolutionary (page history and authors); revolutionary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revolutionary (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revolutionary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revolutionary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revolutionary (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); revolutionary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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