Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. In opposition to a revolution
- n. A person who opposes a revolution and attempts to reverse the changes made by it
WordNet 3.0
- n. a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
- adj. relating to or being a counterrevolution
- adj. marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution
Etymologies
- counter- + revolutionary (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If there's a war -- and some blogs troublingly trash professional standards as quaint and archaic, like communists denouncing anything "counterrevolutionary" -- the blogheads may have won, at least for now.”
The Washington Post: In the 500-channel universe, we're definitely lost in space
“Mr. BERNSTEIN: Well, the government acknowledges 3,000 political prisoners; that is people in jail for what they loosely call counterrevolutionary crimes.”
“We always call counterrevolutionary criminals by the name of counterrevolutionary criminals.”
“His penalty was not confinement to Siberia or the Gulag, as may well have been the fate of Pavlik Marozov's "counterrevolutionary" parents.”
“A few pages later it was the denounced himself who was relaying the "counterrevolutionary" expressions used by the cleaning assistant in the dining room.”
The Huffington Post: Yoani Sanchez: "The Murmurs Overlap... Everyone Spies on Everyone."
“The governor-general of West Azerbaijan province, Vahid Jalalzadeh, blamed the bombing on "counterrevolutionary" rebels, an apparent reference to Kurdish separatists.”
The Washington Post: Bomb attack at Iranian parade kills at least 11
“In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies.”
“To contextualize this idea I would like to ask the signers of the document if you will remain silent when they come looking for a "counterrevolutionary" or a "worm" or an "opponent", if you will be among those who beat others in the repudiation rallies, or among those who defend the victim.”
Yoani Sanchez: What Did You Do When They Came For The Nonconformist?
“Zhang is one of very few military men who've called for a reassessment of the protest movement, which authorities still sometimes call a "counterrevolutionary" riot.”
“Just as the 1976 Tiananmen protests following the death of Zhou Enlai were originally dubbed as "counterrevolutionary," so the massive 1989 demonstrations to this day are labeled as "political turmoil.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘counterrevolutionary’.
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20-Letter BigWords
A list of words that each contain twenty (20) letters, beginning with compartmentalization.
Writers of English fond of concise phrases and apt one-syllable Anglo-Saxon nouns and verbs ...compartmentalization, antiparliamentarians, ultramicroscopically, contradistinguishing, radiotelegraphically, psychopathologically, electrocardiographic, overapprehensiveness, hydrotherapeuticians, neurophysiologically, incomprehensibleness, microminiaturization and 183 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
contraindications, contradistinction, conventionalising, contextualisation, consubstantiation, constitutionality, constitutionalism, conscientiousness, congregationalist, contemporaneously, contextualization, comprehensibility and 634 more...
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HU History
13 Martyrs of Arad, Austria-Hungary, Compromise of 1867, Pechenegs, Plain of Arad, Treaty of Trianon, Turkish rule, bulla, hajduk, pandour, rosette, the Rout at Mohács and 4 more...
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verbocity's list
nacreous, tempestuous, flummox, sable, ennui, coquettish, adumbrate, gravid, verdant, counterrevolutionary, nefarious, tchotchke and 19 more...
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