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say it: rev-uh-LOO-shuh-ner-ee
revolutionary is an adjective and noun meaning "markedly new or introducing radical change". It carries 5 recorded senses.
of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn
relating to or having the nature of a revolution
“revolutionary wars”
“the Revolutionary era”
advocating or engaged in revolution
“revolutionary pamphlets”
“a revolutionary junta”
a radical supporter of political or social revolution
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for revolutionary come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.