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| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | die-hard*, orthodox, right, rigid, traditional, counterrevolutionary, obscurantist, old-line, regressive, retrogressive, rightist, standpat, tory, traditionalistic |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is politically conservative |
| Synonyms: | diehard*, hard hat, intransigent, Tory, bitter-ender, counterrevolutionary, obscurantist, reactionist, right-winger, rightist, royalist, standpatter, traditionalist, ultraconservative |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | agitator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who disturbs, causes trouble |
| Synonyms: | advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, dissident, fighter, firebrand*, heretic, incendiary, instigator, malcontent, partisan, propagandist, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, revolutionary, ringleader, troublemaker, zealot, adjy, disrupter, dogmatist, fomenter, inciter, leftist, mover, provocateur, pusher, reformer, revisionist, sparkplug, wave maker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | catalyst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something which incites activity |
| Synonyms: | agitator, goad, impetus, impulse, incendiary, incentive, incitement, motivation, reactionary, spark plug, spur, stimulant, adjuvant, enzyme, incitation, radical stimulus, reactant, synergist, wave maker |
| Antonyms: | block, prevention, blockage, preventer |
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo |
| Synonyms: | bourgeois, constant, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fuddy-duddy*, guarded, hard hat, illiberal, inflexible, middle-of-the-road*, obstinate, old guard*, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck*, right, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, unchangeable, unchanging, unimaginative, Tory, controlled, fogyish, hidebound, holding to, in a rut, not extreme, old line, right of center, traditionalistic, uncreative, undaring, unprogressive, white bread |
| Antonyms: | exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change |
| Synonyms: | diehard, hard hat, moderate, old guard*, reactionary, redneck*, right, stick-in-the-mud*, Tory, bitter-ender, classicist, conserver, conventionalist, middle-of-the-roader, moderatist, obstructionist, old liner, preserver, right-winger, rightist, silk-stocking, standpat, traditionalist, unprogressive |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical, left-winger |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | die-hard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncompromising |
| Synonyms: | conservative, convinced, dyed-in-the-wool*, extremist, firm, immovable, inflexible, intransigent, orthodox, reactionary, right, Philistine, Tory, fogyish, old-line, standpat, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unreconstructed |
| Antonyms: | flexible, compromising, conceding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | diehard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic person |
| Synonyms: | dyed-in-the-wool*, extremist, fanatic, intransigent, mossback*, reactionary, right, stick-in-the-mud*, zealot, Bourbon, Tory, bitter ender, fogy, fundamentalist, old liner, praetorian, pullback, right-winger, rightist, standpat, standpatter, true blue, ultraconservative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | narrow-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | biased, intolerant |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, conservative, conventional, illiberal, insular, narrow, opinionated, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, reactionary, short-sighted, small-minded, strait-laced, hidebound, unenlarged |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, unbiased |
| Main Entry: | orthodox |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepted, traditional |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, approved, authoritative, by the numbers*, canonical, conformist, conservative, conventional, correct, customary, devout, die-hard, established, legitimate, official, pious, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received, recognized, religious, right, rightful, sanctioned, sound, square, standard, straight, straight arrow, true, according to the book, admitted, buttoned-down*, doctrinal, in line, old-line, traditionalistic, well-established |
| Antonyms: | heterodox, unconventional, unorthodox, untraditional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | renegade |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | apostate, disloyal, dissident, heterodox, mutinous, outlaw, radical, reactionary, rebel, recreant, revolutionary, runaway, traitorous, unfaithful, backsliding, schismatic, untraditional |
| Antonyms: | obedient, passive, submissive |
| Main Entry: | right-wing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative politically |
| Synonyms: | conservative, conventional, reactionary, rightist, ultra-conservative, unprogressive |
| Antonyms: | left-wing, radical |
| Main Entry: | stick-in-the-mud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unadventurous person |
| Synonyms: | antediluvian, conservative, diehard*, diehard, fossil*, fuddy-duddy, mossback*, reactionary, obstinate person, old fogy, person set in ways |
| Antonyms: | adventurer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is old-fashioned, conventional |
| Synonyms: | antediluvian, conservative, diehard*, fuddy-duddy*, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud*, traditionalist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | narrow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intolerant, small-minded |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, dogmatic, illiberal, inexorable, inflexible, narrow-minded, obdurate, parochial, partial, prejudiced, reactionary, hidebound |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, accepting |
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative politically |
| Synonyms: | die-hard*, orthodox, reactionary, right wing, old-line, traditionalistic |
| Notes: | right means free from error or correct in opinion or judgment; a wright is someone who makes, builds, or repairs something |
| Antonyms: | left |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | philosophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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