Revolutionary
[revə'luːʃ(ə)n(ə)rɪ] or ['rɛvə'lʊʃə'nɛri]
Definition
(adj.) markedly new or introducing radical change; 'a revolutionary discovery'; 'radical political views' .
(adj.) advocating or engaged in revolution; 'revolutionary pamphlets'; 'a revolutionary junta' .
(adj.) relating to or having the nature of a revolution; 'revolutionary wars'; 'the Revolutionary era' .
Checker: Sherman--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
(n.) A revolutionist.
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Examples
- Such taxes appear to me to be revolutionary. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For converting the grain into flour, the inventors of the Nineteenth Century have made revolutionary changes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The recognition of this truth by Sorel is one of the most impressive events in the revolutionary movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is a revolutionary task, and like all real revolutions it will not be done in a day or a decade because someone orders it to be done. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Here was an economic tendency of revolutionary significance--the organization of business in a way that was bound to change the outlook of a whole nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But China is not to be moulded to the Japanese pattern, and the revolutionary stir continued. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I'll try not to, but I'm always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We live in a revolutionary period and nothing is so important as to be aware of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet the defects of the great political system created by the Americans of the revolutionary period did not appear at once. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Although his educational philosophy was revolutionary, it was none the less in bondage to static ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One of the most important and revolutionary of the applications of the sewing machine is for making shoes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Revolutionary myths . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In no insignificant number of cases the vote is a cover by which revolutionary demands can be given a conventional front. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mercifully unconscious of what she had done, Jo sat with her nose in the air, and a revolutionary aspect which was anything but inviting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The Marxist system points us to an accumulation of revolutionary forces in the modern world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is not on record that anyone was deliberately tortured by the French revolutionaries during the Terror. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Theodore