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Reactionary meaning

  1. Extremely conservative; opposing revolution (such as the French Revolution); favoring a return to a "golden age" of the past.
  2. Of, pertaining to, participating in, or inducing a chemical reaction.
  3. In reaction to; as a result of.

Synonyms of Reactionary

reactionist far-right right ultraconservative extreme right-winger conservative conservativist

Using Reactionary

  • The main meaning on this page is: Extremely conservative; opposing revolution (such as the French Revolution); favoring a return to a "golden age" of the past. | Of, pertaining to, participating in, or inducing a chemical reaction. | In reaction to; as a result of.
  • Useful related words include: reactionist, far-right, right, ultraconservative.
  • In the example corpus, reactionary often appears in combinations such as: the reactionary, reactionary and, and reactionary.

Context around Reactionary

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Reactionary

  • In this selection, "reactionary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, increasingly, too, deeply, centrists, political and ambivalence stand out and add context to how "reactionary" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a more reactionary society could and america s reactionary military practices. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "reactionary" sits close to words such as ababa, adrift and agm, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with reactionary

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

His fields are either too reactionary or too pre-planned. (10 words)

At the time, reactionary ambivalence washed over Hyde’s former teammates. (11 words)

There is no doubt, however, of the deeply reactionary character of his politics. (13 words)

It's common for reactionary political figures to point back to the '50s as this time where everyone was straight, white, polite, and never had sex outside of marriage, but that period never actually existed; it's just how most of the movies were. (44 words)

But that simply isn't going to happen as long as we are run by a reactionary Tory government prepared to inflict permanent isolation for its own ideological reasons, or a Labour alternative whose Brexit policies are sadly identical. (39 words)

In the revolutions so far it has been the bourgeoisie in the party that has undermined and reversed the revolution by changing the ideological and political line of the party making it a bourgeois and reactionary party. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

Misrepresenting and demonizing them, as reactionary centrists do, only serves to block future progress and, by the way, to undermine the kind of reality-based, pragmatic public dialogue that reactionary centrists claim to want.

At the time, reactionary ambivalence washed over Hyde’s former teammates.

Bacon — that's how the swine of England ended up during the Age of Revolution, fried and sizzled by the reactionary rulers of the day.

But that simply isn't going to happen as long as we are run by a reactionary Tory government prepared to inflict permanent isolation for its own ideological reasons, or a Labour alternative whose Brexit policies are sadly identical.

Despite the Vegas popularity, he began to seem out of touch, spouting increasingly reactionary views and casual racism from a bygone era.

Destroy that bulwark, and Israeli Jewish civil liberties become vulnerable to reactionary religious pressures.

For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.

He scored his side's second of the game with a reactionary tap-in from close range with Liam Palmer ultimately scoring the equaliser deep into stoppage time.

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His fields are either too reactionary or too pre-planned.

I have posted about No Labels, the reactionary centrist political action committee bankrolling Senator Kirsten Sinema and her attack on what's left of the social infrastructure of the Second Reconstruction.

In the revolutions so far it has been the bourgeoisie in the party that has undermined and reversed the revolution by changing the ideological and political line of the party making it a bourgeois and reactionary party.

It's common for reactionary political figures to point back to the '50s as this time where everyone was straight, white, polite, and never had sex outside of marriage, but that period never actually existed; it's just how most of the movies were.

Its opening newsreel footage, as well as its wholehearted condemnation of America’s reactionary military practices, similarly make ’s allusions to the post-9/11 Iraq War unavoidably clear.

Known by aficionados to have been lofty, snobbish, intellectual and reactionary, Borges in unguarded moments turns out to have expressed feelings negating allegiances expressed elsewhere, including about Jews.

That didn’t stop some players from boycotting the game about supporting a project that puts in the author’s pocket as reactionary political forces in the U.S. and United Kingdom lay siege to transgender rights.

The governor during a security council meeting held at Government House Makurdi yesterday also charged them to emphasize prevention of attacks by armed/criminal herders rather than the reactionary approach.

The officials said they weren’t being reactionary to an isolated incident, but while debriefing after the incident with school officials and internally, they recognized a real need for a third SRO.

There are dozens of others, hilarious, tragic, left-wing and reactionary, cultured and philistine.

There is no doubt, however, of the deeply reactionary character of his politics.

This march toward a more reactionary society could be stemmed by a strong counteroffensive led by progressives in and out of government.

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Common combinations with reactionary

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "reactionary" in a sentence?
An example: "Misrepresenting and demonizing them, as reactionary centrists do, only serves to block future progress and, by the way, to undermine the kind of reality-based, pragmatic public dialogue that reactionary centrists claim to want." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "reactionary" from authentic English texts.
What does "reactionary" mean?
Reactionary means: Extremely conservative; opposing revolution (such as the French Revolution); favoring a return to a "golden age" of the past.
What are synonyms of "reactionary"?
Common synonyms of "reactionary" include: reactionist, far-right, right, ultraconservative, extreme right-winger, conservative, conservativist.
How many example sentences with "reactionary" are there?
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