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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In fact, the group’s radicals are likely to be emboldened.

Saeid Golkar, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
The Black Panther Party in the late 1960s organized Puerto Rican radicals and Confederate flag-waving white Southerner transplants to help tackle poverty and discrimination in Chicago — an effort that drew attention from the FBI.

Russell Contreras, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024

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