单词	reactionary
释义	reactionary1 adjectivereactionary2 noun reactionaryre‧ac‧tion‧a‧ry1 /riˈækʃənəri $ -ʃəneri/ AWL adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Reactionary politicians voted against the proposal. Cultural attitudes to women were more reactionary than in most of Western Europe. He is known for his reactionary views on immigration and the reintroduction of the death penalty. The seventy year old president has been condemned as reactionary by his radical opponents. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And the main reason was that reactionary and factious opposition led the Government to seek and obtain an immediate dissolution of Parliament. But the reactionary left rejected change, to the present detriment of those it claims to represent. Elated by their first opportunity to serve as Guardians of Truth and Traditional Wisdom, they weighed in with equally reactionary vigor. In a reactionary decade there are many who will not be hesitant to use such state-ments to confirm their former views. This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general, ahistorical terms. We realise today that this reactionary generation grew up to be the most materialistic the world has ever known. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorunwilling to accept changes or new ideas► have fixed ideas someone who has fixed ideas has opinions and attitudes that never change, and often seem unreasonable: · These old teachers tend to have very fixed ideas.have fixed ideas about: · He has very fixed ideas about the way a wife should behave. ► reactionary strongly opposed to change, especially social or political change, in a way that you think is unreasonable: · The seventy-year-old president has been condemned as reactionary by his radical opponents.· He is known for his reactionary views on immigration and the reintroduction of the death penalty.· Cultural attitudes to women were more reactionary than in most of Western Europe. ► entrenched entrenched attitudes are ones that people have had for a long time and are very difficult to change: entrenched in: · The unequal treatment of men and women in the labour market is deeply entrenched in our culture. firmly/deeply entrenched: · In the small towns racial prejudice was deeply entrenched.entrenched attitudes/habits/beliefs etc: · The attitudes of adults to the mentally handicapped tend to be firmly entrenched, and difficult to change. ► stick in the mud informal someone who has old-fashioned attitudes and is unwilling to change or try something new: · Come on, don't be such an old stick in the mud.· She accused him of being a stick in the mud. ► diehard someone who still refuses to change their beliefs even when most other people have changed them: · Apart from a few union diehards most of the men have accepted the new productivity agreement. ► hidebound a group of people or an institution that is hidebound has very old-fashioned ideas and attitudes and is unwilling to change them: · It was predictable that the medical establishment, so hidebound and reactionary, would reject Dr Stone's ideas.· The hidebound attitudes of Russia's powerful aristocracy made any kind of progress impossible. WORD SETS► Groupings agitate, verbagitation, nounagitator, nounbipartisan, adjectivebipartite, adjectivebloc, nounBolshevik, nouncapitalism, nouncentrist, adjectivecoalition, nouncommie, nouncommunism, nouncommunist, nouncommunist, adjectiveCon, confederacy, nounconfederate, nounconfederation, nouncongress, nounconservatism, nounDem., disloyal, adjectivedissident, noundivide, verbdivisive, adjectivefascism, nounfascist, nounfederal, adjectivefederate, verbfederation, nounfront, nounginger group, nounhegemony, nounheterodox, adjectiveIndependent, nouninfighting, nouninterest group, nounIRA, nounIron Curtain, the, Lab, Labour, nounleftie, nounleftist, adjectiveleft-of-centre, adjectiveleft-wing, adjectivelefty, nounLib Dem, nounLiberal, nounLiberal Democrats, nounLiberal Party, loyalist, nounLuddite, nounmachine, nounmajority leader, nounminority leader, nounmoderate, adjectivemoderate, nounmonarchist, nounmovement, nounnationalism, nounnationalist, adjectivenationalist, nounNazi, nounneutral, adjectivenon-partisan, adjectivepalace revolution, nounparamilitary, adjectivepartisan, adjectivepartisan, nounparty, nounparty political, adjectiveparty politics, nounpinko, nounpro-, prefixpro-choice, adjectiveR, rabble-rousing, nounradical, nounrally, nounreactionary, adjectiverealign, verbrebel, nounrebellion, nounrebellious, adjectivered, adjectivered, nounrepublican, nounrevolt, nounrevolt, verbrevolutionary, adjectiverevolutionary, nounrightist, adjectiveright-of-centre, adjectiveright-wing, adjectiveroyalist, nounseparatist, nounspecial interest group, nounsplinter group, nounsplit, verbsubcommittee, nounsubversion, nounsuffragette, nounsympathizer, nounsympathy, nountendency, nounTory, nounTrotskyite, nountrue-blue, adjectiveUnionist, nounuprising, nounWhig, nounwing, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► forces · First, he argued, there had been post-revolutionary disillusionment which had allowed reactionary forces to become influential. Word family WORD FAMILYnounreactionreactorreactionaryoverreactionadjectivereactionaryreactiveverbreactoverreact very strongly opposed to any social or political change – used to show disapproval:  reactionary attitudes reactionary1 adjectivereactionary2 noun reactionaryreactionary2 AWL noun (plural reactionaries) [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS That Ptolemy was a conservative, even a reactionary in certain respects, is undeniable. The damage was two-fold, for within months of Kiselev's departure a reactionary took his place. The fact is that Berlioz, who invented the modern orchestra, was a fervent reactionary throughout his life. Word family WORD FAMILYnounreactionreactorreactionaryoverreactionadjectivereactionaryreactiveverbreactoverreact someone who strongly opposes any social or political change – used to show disapproval
随便看	neuralgic neural network neuro- neuroinformatics neurological neurologist neurology neuron neuroscience neurosis neurotheology neurotic neurotically neurotypical neuter neutral neutralist neutrality neutralization neutralize neutrally neutrino neutron neutron bomb Nevada

英语词典包含52748条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。