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单词 reactionary
释义

reactionary

/rɪˈakʃ(ə)n(ə)ri /
adjective
Opposing political or social progress or reform: reactionary attitudes toward women’s rights...
  • It is a highly political ruling with reactionary consequences for both asylum-seekers and democratic rights as a whole.
  • To make matters even worse, a Democratic president, Buchanan, gave his political support to these reactionary efforts.
  • In a professional army, the extent of deeply reactionary political sentiment is far greater.

Synonyms

right-wing, conservative, rightist, ultra-conservative;
blimpish, diehard;
traditionalist, conventional, traditional, old-fashioned, unprogressive;
North American Birchite
noun (plural reactionaries)
A reactionary person: he was later to become an extreme reactionary...
  • The lesson of the story was that from a long-term point of view, all reactionaries are paper tigers.
  • He is an opportunist and a power hungry reactionary, I don't even see him ‘liberalising’ the economy.
  • No mere reactionary, Schwartz was also interested in and informed about contemporary art that might look very different from his own.

Synonyms

right-winger, conservative, rightist, diehard, Colonel Blimp;
traditionalist, conventionalist;
North American Birchite
informal stick-in-the-mud
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