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)
  • tory,
  • right,
  • retrogressive,
  • counterrevolutionary,
  • obscurantist,
  • regressive,
  • traditional,
  • old-line.
  •die-hard (adjective)
  • unreconstructed,
  • die hard,
  • immovable,
  • oldline,
  • ultra-conservative.
  •narrow (adjective)
  • in-exorable.
  •narrow-minded (adjective)
  • Unenlarged.
  •orthodox (adjective)
  • in line,
  • doctrinal,
  • buttoned-down,
  • received,
  • straight arrow,
  • well-established,
  • according to the book,
  • by numbers.
  •renegade (adjective)
  • untraditional.
  •right-wing (adjective)
  • rightwing.
  •unprogressive (adjective)
  • subnormal.

• n.

  •
  • inflexible,
  • stubborn,
  • intolerant,
  • closed,
  • rigid,
  • opinionated,
  • bloody-minded.
  •
  • politics.
  •
  • mossback.
  •agitator (noun)
  • reformer,
  • reformers,
  • inciter,
  • mover,
  • revolutionaries,
  • dogmatist,
  • provocateur,
  • malcontents,
  • provocateurs,
  • disrupters,
  • dogmatists,
  • adjy,
  • revisionist,
  • wave maker,
  • fomenter,
  • disrupter,
  • Leftists,
  • revisionists,
  • leftist,
  • movers,
  • sparkplug,
  • ringleader.
  •catalyst (noun)
  • in citations,
  • synergists,
  • in-citation,
  • in citation,
  • radical stimulu,
  • in-citations,
  • adjuvants.
  •conservative (noun)
  • standpats,
  • middle of the roaders,
  • old liners,
  • pre-server,
  • bitter-enders,
  • middle-of-the-roaders,
  • moderatists,
  • silkstocking,
  • silk stockings,
  • un progressives,
  • pre-servers,
  • pre servers,
  • silk-stockings,
  • bitterender,
  • silkstockings,
  • bitterenders,
  • bitter enders,
  • un-progressives,
  • unprogressives,
  • pre server.
  •diehard (noun)
  • praetorians,
  • standpatter,
  • fundamentalists,
  • bourbon,
  • fundamentalist,
  • pullback,
  • bourbons,
  • true blue.
  •extreme right-winger (noun)
  • extreme right-winger.
  •far-right (noun)
  • far-right.
  •leavening (noun)
  • leavening.
  •person who is politically conservative (noun)
  • ultraconservative,
  • hard hat,
  • right-winger,
  • reactionist,
  • royalist,
  • intransigent.
  •square (noun)
  • square.
  •stick-in-the-mud (noun)
  • person set ways,
  • obstinate people,
  • person set in way,
  • old fogies,
  • person set way,
  • obstinate persons.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mossbacked.
  •
  • backward.
  •conservative
  • right wing.

Paraphrases for Reactionary:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    reactive, retroactive.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    non-retroactivity.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    retrograde, regressive, backward-looking, retrogressive, conservative.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    reaction.

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.

Reactionary Sentence Examples:

• The reactionary forces that come into play during and after war are quite incalculable.

• The bluff commander, reactionary and of the old school as was his breed, was furious - baffled, raging inwardly to come to grips with the invisible and indetectable foe.

Homophones for Reactionary:

• rouge et noir.