revolutionary

revolutionary
adj
1. rebellious, insurgent, insurrectionary, seditious, factious; mutinous, insubordinate, disobedient; traitorous, treasonable, subversive; lawless, riotous, ungovernable, uncontrollable, out of control, unmanageable.
2. underground, counter-culture, counter-cultural, avant-garde; radical, drastic, thoroughgoing, fundamental, drastic, sweeping; progressive, newfangled, innovative, experimental.
3. revolving, rotating, circumrotating, gyrating, cir-cumgyrating, whirling, turning, spinning.
n
4. rebel, insurgent, insurrectionist, sansculotte, revolutionist, revolter, seditionist, mutineer; agitator, malcontent, anarchist, U.S. weatherman; rioter, brawler; traitor, turncoat, Benedict Arnold.
5. counter-culturist, radical, extremist; fanatic, zealot.

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