revolutionary

revolutionary
Synonyms and related words:
Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fabian, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Mafioso, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, Young Turk, agitator, altered, anarch, anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, antagonistic, antipathetic, authentic, avant-garde, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, better, bomber, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway, brute, cataclysmic, catastrophic, changeable, changed, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, converted, corrective, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, creative, criminal syndicalist, crotchety, degenerate, demon, deviant, devil, different, disorderly, dissident, divergent, dragon, emendatory, extreme, extreme left-winger, extremist, extremistic, factious, fanatic, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, firsthand, fresh, frondeur, fury, goon, gorilla, gradualistic, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hostile, hothead, hotspur, imaginative, improved, incendiary, inimical, innovative, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, killer, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mad dog, madcap, malcontent, maverick, meliorist, melioristic, metamorphosed, metastasized, mild radical, mildly radical, modified, monster, mugger, mutant, mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, new, nihilist, nihilistic, nonconformist, novel, obstreperous, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, original, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, perverse, pink, pinko, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, qualified, rabid, radical, rampant, rapist, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, rebuilt, recalcitrant, red, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformed, reformer, reformist, reformistic, renewed, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revived, revolter, revolutional, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, revulsionary, revulsive, rioter, riotous, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, savage, seditionary, seditious, she-wolf, spitfire, subversive, sweeping, syndicalist, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, traitor, traitorous, transformed, transilient, translated, transmuted, treasonable, turbulent, ugly customer, ultra, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, unbridled, underived, unique, unmitigated, unruly, utopian, utopist, violent, virago, vixen, wild, wild beast, witch, wolf, worse, yippie

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