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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reactionary \Re*ac"tion*a*ry\ (-[asl]*r[y^]), adjective Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reactionary \Re*ac"tion*a*ry\, noun; pl. {Reactionaries} (-r[i^]z). One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reactionary
adjective: extremely conservative [syn: {reactionist}, {far-right}]
noun: an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism [syn: {ultraconservative}, {extreme right-winger}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
170 Moby Thesaurus words for "reactionary": Bircher, Bourbon, Colonel Blimp, Epistle side, Methuselah, Tory, antagonistic, antediluvian, antipathetic, antiphonal, antique, atavistic, back number, bellyacher, bitter-ender, blimp, breakaway, clashing, clockwise, complainant, complainer, conflicting, conservatist, conservative, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crab, crank, cranky, croaker, crotchety, dad, decanal side, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, die-hard, diehard, dissident, dodo, elder, extreme right-winger, faultfinder, fogy, fogyish, fossil, frondeur, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, hard hat, has-been, hostile, imperialist, inimical, intransigent, kicker, kvetch, longhair, malcontent, matriarch, mid-Victorian, monarchist, mossback, murmurer, mutterer, nonconformist, nonprogressive, off, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-line, old-timer, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, orthodox, patriarch, perverse, pop, pops, querulous person, radical right, reacting, reactionarist, reactionist, reactive, rebel, recalcitrant, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, recto, reflex, reflexive, refluent, regressive, regular old fogy, relic, renitent, repugnant, resistant, respondent, responding, responsive, retroactionary, retroactive, retrocessive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revolutionary, revulsionary, revulsive, right, right field, right hand, right of center, right side, right wing, right-hand, right-wing, right-winger, right-wingish, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, sorehead, square, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, starets, tory, traditionalist, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unprogressive, whiner, white
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