Reactionary Synonyms and Antonyms

rē-ăkshə-nĕrē
Vehemently, often fanatically opposing progress or reform
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. die-hard
  2. mossbacked
  3. ultraconservative
Clinging to obsolete ideas
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. conservative
  2. rigid
  3. backward
  4. retrogressive
  5. reactionist
  6. regressive
  7. ultraconservative
  8. unprogressive
  9. far-right
Antonyms:
  1. liberal
  2. radical
  3. progressive
A person who vehemently, often fanatically opposes progress and favors return to a previous condition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ultraconservative
  2. conservative
  3. die-hard
  4. right-winger
  5. mossback
  6. diehard
  7. orthodox
  8. tory
  9. traditionalist
  10. extreme-right-winger
Antonyms:
  1. progressive
  2. radical
  3. liberal

Words Related to Reactionary

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Reactionary Sentence Examples

  • Under the Restoration he became a peer of France, but protested against the reactionary spirit of the government, and remained in opposition.

  • He was left in the hands of reactionary boyars and priests, who encouraged him to hate his father and wish for the death of the tsar-antichrist.

  • Now that he saw an opportunity to become master he became reactionary and abolished the federal constitution.

  • But the National Liberals triumphed at the general election; fear of reactionary tendencies finally induced the Radicals to accede to the wishes of the majority; and on the 5th of June 1849 the new constitution received the royal sanction.

  • He appeared there as the champion of the king and encouraged him in his reactionary policy.

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