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: --
They have made a career out of this reactionary, sentimental nonsense.
Reactionary forces/elements in the industry are preventing its progress towards greater efficiency.
2 a person who opposes political or social change --
It is clear that my comment could be deemed to be reactionary, unappreciative of new developments and in defence of the existing power-structures.
Explicit comparisons were made with developing countries, where such reactionary elements also impeded progress and 'natural development', as it was often expressed.
Starting in 1966, when they were labeled "a bourgeois reactionary authority," scientists came under attack in big-character posters.
Here the topic of the body is identified with a reactionary and oppressive discourse, one that individualises and demeans disabled people.
The opposition becomes simple-minded and reactionary, the past becomes monolithic.
The cabinet was representative of the most prestigious and reactionary elements in parliament and in society.
Is there a way to reaffirm the value of locality without falling into a reactionary trap of blood and soil?
Both translated the argument for the different worlds of nature into the cultural sphere to politically reactionary ends.