网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 reactionary
释义 reactionary
noun[ C ]
 politics disapprovinguk /riˈæk.ʃən.ər.i/ us /riˈæk.ʃən.er.i/
a person who is opposed to political or social change or new ideas: 反动分子;保守分子;反对进步者
Reactionaries are preventing reforms.反对进步者正在阻碍改革。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Custom, tradition & conformity
Americanization
anti-classical
anti-conventional
anti-institutional
anti-traditional
conventionally
costume
counter-tradition
crowd
custom
maverick
moonraker
mores
multicultural
multiculturalism
traditionalist
traditionally
ultra-conservatism
ultra-conservative
ultra-traditional
reactionary
adjective
 politics disapprovinguk /riˈæk.ʃən.ər.i/ us /riˈæk.ʃən.er.i/
opposed to political or social change or new ideas:
Reactionary forces/elements in the industry are preventing its progress towards greater efficiency.
They have made a career out of this reactionary, sentimental nonsense.
Their policies are deeply reactionary and unfair.
In his later years he was increasingly reactionary in his political views.
We are in a dangerous age with the rise to power of reactionary ideologies on all sides.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Custom, tradition & conformity
Americanization
anti-classical
anti-conventional
anti-institutional
anti-traditional
conventionally
costume
counter-tradition
crowd
custom
maverick
moonraker
mores
multicultural
multiculturalism
traditionalist
traditionally
ultra-conservatism
ultra-conservative
ultra-traditional

reactionary | American Dictionary


reactionary
noun[ C ]
us/riˈæk·ʃəˌner·i/
social studies
a person who opposes political or social change

reactionary


adjective[ not gradable ]us/riˈæk·ʃəˌner·i/
Reactionary forces opposed to the president’s reforms could move to oust him.

Examples of reactionary


reactionary
The reaction, without being reactionary, was performed by three excellent historians.
Second, the reactionary tone of the contributions is only thinly veiled (indeed at some points, not at all).
Liberals viewed the bureaucracy as a reactionary tool used by governments that were unaccountable to constitutions or the popular will.
This has always been an exotic fantasy of reactionary racism.
That, in turn, would have been worse for the reactionaries and their constituency.
But the system was already under attack by a reactionary opposition.
Religious reactionaries were not, however, to blame for this breakup.
Both translated the argument for the different worlds of nature into the cultural sphere to politically reactionary ends.
Is there a way to reaffirm the value of locality without falling into a reactionary trap of blood and soil?
The cabinet was representative of the most prestigious and reactionary elements in parliament and in society.
The opposition becomes simple-minded and reactionary, the past becomes monolithic.
Here the topic of the body is identified with a reactionary and oppressive discourse, one that individualises and demeans disabled people.
Starting in 1966, when they were labeled "a bourgeois reactionary authority," scientists came under attack in big-character posters.
Explicit comparisons were made with developing countries, where such reactionary elements also impeded progress and 'natural development', as it was often expressed.
It is clear that my comment could be deemed to be reactionary, unappreciative of new developments and in defence of the existing power-structures.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2025/2/2 18:35:40