Definition of "counterrevolutionary" [counterrevolutionary]

• In opposition to a revolution (adjective)
• A person who opposes a revolution and attempts to reverse the changes made by it (noun)

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• "If there's a war -- and some blogs troublingly trash professional standards as quaint and archaic, like communists denouncing anything "counterrevolutionary" -- the blogheads may have won, at least for now."
• "Mr. BERNSTEIN: Well, the government acknowledges 3,000 political prisoners; that is people in jail for what they loosely call counterrevolutionary crimes."
• "We always call counterrevolutionary criminals by the name of counterrevolutionary criminals."