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revolutionary in English:

1. involving a great or complete change involving a great or complete change



2. revolution


The revolution divided many families.
After the revolution, France became a republic.
In a sense, such a political movement may be called a revolution.
Many revolutions have changed the political system of different countries.
Thanks to the Internet, the world is beginning to turn away from the centralization of resources and power that characterized the Industrial Revolution.
Kids these days have no imagination whatsoever. Only a nationwide revolution and sweeping economic reform will bring the hoop and stick back into vogue.
Those who haven't lived in the eighteenth century before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of life.
Christopher Columbus once started a revolution, and then crushed it.
The French Revolution not only had as its objective to change an old government, but also to abolish the old form of society.
The invention of the telephone caused a revolution in our way of living.
The behaviour of the Princess Monaco, one of the many victims of the French revolution, on the morning of her execution, will be long remembered for its eccentricity and heroism.
It required 20 minutes to complete two revolutions
A loss of revolutions per minute (r.p.m.) may be noticable as you approach a stall in power-on conditions.
There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

3. rebellious


He’s always had a rebellious streak (= a tendency to rebel).
rebellious teenagers
Fans of gangsta rap tend to be rebellious.
He has a rebellious view, he rejectes all social restraints.
Some rebels are more rebellious than others.
He was responsible, I was rebellious.
Her teachers regard her as a rebellious, trouble-making girl.
Dan has always had a rebellious streak.
I was really rebellious as a teenager. I never did what my parents wanted.
I was prone to being rather rebellious as a child. I would regularly refuse to do what I was told.
Julie is rebellious and ignores her parents.
Julie is really rebellious and never does what her parents tell her to do.
They looked angry and almost rebellious.
She’s going through a very rebellious phase.
Children have a tendency to become rebellious.

4. revolt


People rose in revolt against the King.
A revolt broke out.
The army was called to suppress the revolt.
They will revolt in time if they see that those standards are debased by imports from third countries.
revolt against sb/sth
the leaders of the revolt was punished
The revolt was crushed.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
The army had the revolt well in hand.
But for the support of the public, the President could not have survived the revolt.
On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.

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