Definition for Reactionary:

• One who favors a return to an old or opposite system; one who seeks to undo political progress.

Synonyms for Reactionary:

• adj.

  •conservative (adjective)
  • orthodox,
  • retrogressive,
  • traditional,
  • old-line,
  • right,
  • traditionalistic,
  • die-hard,
  • counterrevolutionary,
  • standpat,
  • tory,
  • rightist,
  • obscurantist,
  • rigid,
  • regressive.
  •die-hard (adjective)
  • unreconstructed,
  • ultra-conservative,
  • old-line.
  •narrow-minded (adjective)
  • opinionated.
  •orthodox (adjective)
  • received.

• n.

  •
  • rigid,
  • inflexible,
  • narrow-minded,
  • narrow,
  • opinionated,
  • intolerant.
  •
  • die-hard,
  • mossbacked.
  •
  • backward,
  • unprogressive,
  • conservative.
  •
  • mossback.
  •diehard (noun)
  • bourbon,
  • standpatter,
  • fundamentalist.
  •person who is politically conservative (noun)
  • intransigent,
  • ultraconservative,
  • reactionist,
  • traditionalist,
  • royalist,
  • bitter-ender,
  • right-winger,
  • diehard,
  • standpatter,
  • hard hat.
  •reactionary (noun)
  • far-right,
  • right,
  • extreme right-winger,
  • reactionist,
  • ultraconservative.
  •right-winger (noun)
  • right-winger.
  •rigid (noun)
  • conservative,
  • retrogressive,
  • regressive.
  •square (noun)
  • square.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unprogressive,
  • mossbacked.
  •
  • die-hard.
  •
  • backward.
  •retrogressive
  • regressive.
  •right-winger
  • mossback.
  •traditional
  • conservative.
  •traditionalist
  • tory.
  •Other relevant words:
  • elder,
  • intractable,
  • agreed,
  • Proscriptive,
  • patriarch,
  • antagonistic,
  • intransigent,
  • bitter-ender,
  • croaker,
  • white,
  • old man,
  • rigid,
  • square,
  • stodgy,
  • non-objective,
  • Revocatory,
  • has-been,
  • standard,
  • lunatic fringe,
  • pettifogging,
  • old school,
  • conservativist,
  • fossil,
  • Revulsive,
  • fogyish,
  • counterrevolutionary,
  • whiskey,
  • orthodox,
  • response,
  • traditionalist,
  • whisky,
  • kicker,
  • starboard,
  • antediluvian,
  • uncompromising,
  • recto,
  • hard hat,
  • dissident,
  • longhair,
  • fogey,
  • mossback,
  • matriarch,
  • regressive,
  • everyday,
  • rightish,
  • strait-laced,
  • dextrorse,
  • crotchety,
  • Fud,
  • retroverse,
  • monarchist,
  • old-timer,
  • answer,
  • bourbon,
  • imperialist,
  • oppositional,
  • old liner,
  • regular,
  • standpatter,
  • Recidivous,
  • respondent,
  • repugnant,
  • reversible,
  • Reactionaries,
  • dextrorotary,
  • standpat,
  • habitual,
  • fundamentalist,
  • royalty,
  • hidebound,
  • old woman,
  • narrow-minded,
  • repercussion,
  • blimpish,
  • Sorehead,
  • mossbacked,
  • retrorse,
  • atavistic,
  • retort,
  • moderate,
  • accuracy,
  • kvetch,
  • narrow,
  • normal,
  • recessive,
  • malcontent,
  • ordinary,
  • agitator,
  • blimp,
  • crab,
  • opposing,
  • fogy,
  • die-hard,
  • reflexive,
  • bellyacher,
  • receding,
  • methuselah,
  • clockwise,
  • opinionated,
  • literal-minded,
  • mutterer,
  • rejoinder,
  • reverting,
  • accustomed,
  • Recoiling,
  • contrary,
  • complainant,
  • antipathetic,
  • nonprogressive,
  • illiberal,
  • reversionary,
  • traditional,
  • revertible,
  • conventional,
  • Oppugnant,
  • responsive,
  • catalyst,
  • cranky,
  • antique,
  • Responding,
  • rightness,
  • Contradicting,
  • diehard,
  • counterworking,
  • relic,
  • obscurantist,
  • backlash,
  • retrograde,
  • has-beens,
  • fuddy-duddy,
  • received,
  • dodo,
  • traditionalistic,
  • whiner,
  • biased,
  • right-wing,
  • ruler,
  • close-minded,
  • reply,
  • intolerant,
  • dad,
  • Frondeur,
  • granny,
  • inimical,
  • unreconstructed,
  • dextrocular,
  • resilient,
  • resistant,
  • royalist,
  • right-winger,
  • Righter,
  • off,
  • usual,
  • Dextrogyrate,
  • crank,
  • petty,
  • extreme,
  • grouch,
  • Counteracting,
  • stick-in-the-mud,
  • puritanical,
  • cramped,
  • reactive,
  • blinkered,
  • breakaway,
  • Murmurer,
  • old fogey,
  • dextropedal,
  • parochial,
  • Grouser,
  • radical right,
  • Griper,
  • provincial,
  • renegade,
  • middle of the roader,
  • reacting,
  • old-line,
  • faultfinder,
  • rebel,
  • customary,
  • established,
  • commonplace,
  • Refluent,
  • reaction,
  • Repercussive,
  • conflicting,
  • pop,
  • set,
  • counteractant,
  • grumbler,
  • accelerator,
  • stuffy,
  • retrogressive,
  • Renitent,
  • perverse,
  • hostile,
  • bigoted,
  • restricted,
  • tory,
  • reflex,
  • archconservative,
  • complainer,
  • philistine,
  • counteractive,
  • countervailing,
  • recidivist,
  • red-necked,
  • rightist,
  • retroactive,
  • paleoconservative,
  • returnable,
  • growler,
  • old believer,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • prejudiced,
  • POPS,
  • right-hand,
  • conservative,
  • old fashioned,
  • antiphonal,
  • ultra-conservative,
  • contradictory,
  • inflexible,
  • clashing,
  • crab-like,
  • recoil,
  • unprogressive,
  • common,
  • recalcitrant,
  • one-sided,
  • correctness,
  • small-minded,
  • right side,
  • dexter,
  • button-down,
  • balky,
  • stiff-necked,
  • backward,
  • dextral,
  • right field,
  • starets.

Antonyms for Reactionary:

• adj.

  • conservative
    liberal, radical, progressive.
  • Other antonyms:
    contemporary, broad-minded, open-minded, large-minded, modern, center, advanced, nonconformist, revolutionary, extremist, left, lefty.

Homophones for Reactionary:

• rouge et noir.