different between hidebound vs reactionary

English

Alternative forms

• hide-bound (less common)

Etymology

hide (“animal skin”, noun) +? bound (“tied”, adjective)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha?d.ba?nd/

Adjective

hidebound (comparative more hidebound, superlative most hidebound)

1. Bound with the hide of an animal.
2. (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
3. (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
4. (of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
5. (obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.
   • 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas

     hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?

Translations

See also

• leatherbound

English

Etymology

From French réactionnaire. Used in the time of the French revolution to refer to a person opposing the revolution; as in a person favoring a reaction to the revolution. First known usage in English in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Conspiracy of the 18th Fructidor published in London, 1799.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?æk??n(?)?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i?æk???n??i/
• Hyphenation: re?ac?tion?ary
• Rhymes: -æri

Adjective

reactionary (comparative more reactionary, superlative most reactionary)

1. Politically favoring a return to a golden age of the past.
2. (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, participating in or inducing a chemical reaction.
   • 2013, Brandon Smith, Are Individuals The Property Of The Collective?

     Psychiatry extends the theory into biology in the belief that all human behavior is nothing more than a series of reactionary chemical processes in the brain that determine pre-coded genetic responses built up from the conditioning of one’s environment.

3. In reaction to, as a result of.

Antonyms

• nonreactionary

Translations

Noun

reactionary (plural reactionaries)

1. One who is opposed to change and wants to reverse it.
2. One who is very conservative.

Translations

Further reading

• "reactionary" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 256.
• reactionary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• creationary