0 a person who is opposed to political or social change or new ideas:
Reactionaries are preventing reforms.
1 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.
2 a person who opposes political or social change
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.
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.
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