Usually means: Opposes political or social progress.
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  1. reactionary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reactionary: Merriam-Webster
  3. reactionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reactionary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reactionary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reactionary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reactionary, reactionary: Wordnik
  8. reactionary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reactionary: Wiktionary
  10. reactionary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reactionary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. reactionary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. reactionary: Dictionary.com
  14. reactionary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. reactionary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Reactionary (album), Reactionary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Reactionary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. reactionary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. reactionary: Rhymezone
  20. reactionary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. reactionary: FreeDictionary.org
  22. reactionary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reactionary: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. reactionary: Legal dictionary

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  1. reactionary: Encyclopedia

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  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. reactionary: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Reactionary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (politics) Opposing revolution (such as the French Revolution); favoring a return to a golden age of the past.
adjective:  (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, participating in, or inducing a chemical reaction.
adjective:  In reaction to; as a result of.
noun:  (politics) One who opposes revolution, wanting to reverse it, favoring a return to a past golden age. Often used as a derogatory by revolutionaires.

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