REVOLUTIONARIES Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

revolutionaries

noun

plural of revolutionary

as in radicals

a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government after the collapse of the Russian monarchy, the moderate socialists briefly governed until being overthrown by the Bolshevik revolutionaries

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as in rebels

a person who rises up against authority at first the government was not worried about this small band of unarmed revolutionaries

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Recent Examples of revolutionaries The game happened to be on November 18th, the anniversary of Haitian revolutionaries defeating the French Army in 1803 before declaring independence. —

Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026 Until the 1950s, its inmates were Vietnamese revolutionaries – or anyone deemed to be such – and conditions were truly horrendous. —

Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026 The villagers become sympathetic to the revolutionaries, who hide in the hills, and increasingly radicalized. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2026 Alliance for Global Justice traces its roots back to efforts to raise money in the late 1970s to support socialist Sandinista revolutionaries in Nicaragua. —

Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026 Among the first lessons that Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries learned after coming to power in 1979 was that their best ally against American power was American democracy. —

Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026 Silvia Hernandez is an Orlando resident and the granddaughter of Cuban revolutionaries buried in Miami. —

Silvia Hernandez, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026 Since Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, the country has been under a strict economic embargo from the United States. —

Max Saltman, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026 The 25-year-old Indianapolis native plays Willa, the daughter of former revolutionaries DiCaprio and Taylor, who goes on the lam when unsavory characters from her parents’ past attempt to track her down. —

Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 13 Mar. 2026

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Now some Republicans are depicting the No Kings movement as a band of radicals, out of step with mainstream political opinion.

— Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
The convergence of Abundance centrists and conservative environmentalists would seem to belie the ACC’s assertion that the environmental movement is dominated by radicals who would rather sabotage the American economy than accept any of the compromises necessary to achieve a prosperous future.

— Gaby Del Valle, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026