counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
(noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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irrevocable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevokable |
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irrevocably | (adverb) in an irrevocable manner | - |
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irrevokable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevocable |
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revocable | (adjective) capable of being revoked or annulled | Synonyms: revokable |
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revocation | (noun) the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done | - |
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(noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: annulment |
revokable | (adjective) capable of being revoked or annulled | Synonyms: revocable |
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revoke | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: renege |
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(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
(verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
revolt | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprising |
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(verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, sicken |
(verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, repel |
(verb) make revolution | - |
revolting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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revoltingly | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, distastefully, sickeningly |
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revolution | (noun) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | - |
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(noun) a single complete turn (axial or orbital) | Synonyms: gyration, rotation |
(noun) a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving | - |
revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
(adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
(noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
revolutionise | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionize |
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(verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionize |
revolutionism | (noun) a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles | - |
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revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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(verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
(verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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(verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
(verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
revolved | (adjective) turned in a circle around an axis | Synonyms: rotated |
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revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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(noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |