counter-revolutionary

A form of counterrevolutionary — Marked by opposition or antipathy to a current or earlier revolution.

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Meanings

adjectivecounter-revolutionary (comparative more counter-revolutionary, superlative most counter-revolutionary)

comparative more counter-revolutionary · superlative most counter-revolutionary

  1. alternativeAlternative form of counterrevolutionary.

    Chienyang County in Shensi Province on the loess highland has fairly rich water resources, but there was little irrigated land — averaging 0.4 mu per person — before the Cultural Revolution owing to interference and sabotage by Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line.

    大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗

    1972, Chao Feng-nien, “Learning from Tachai Brings Big Changes”, in Tachai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture [大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28
nouncounter-revolutionary (plural counter-revolutionaries)

plural counter-revolutionaries

  1. alternativeAlternative form of counterrevolutionary.
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