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Adjective: counterrevolutionary  'kawn-tu(r)`re-vu'loo-shu`ne-ree [N. Amer], kawn-tu`re-vu'loo-shu-n(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. Relating to or being a counterrevolution
     
  2. Marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution
    "ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies"
Noun: counterrevolutionary  'kawn-tu(r)`re-vu'loo-shu`ne-ree [N. Amer], kawn-tu`re-vu'loo-shu-n(u-)ree [Brit]
  1. A revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
    - counterrevolutionist, counter-revolutionist

Derived forms: counterrevolutionaries

See also: counterrevolution

Type of: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, subverter

Antonym: revolutionary

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