antiprogressive

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ progressive.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

antiprogressive (comparative more antiprogressive, superlative most antiprogressive)

  1. Opposing progress.
    • 2019 June 8, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Others considered themselves “alt-lite,” or merely antiprogressive.

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Noun

antiprogressive (plural antiprogressives)

  1. One who opposes progress.
    • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 111:
      And everyone in Afghanistan would be happy too, she said, once the antiprogressives, the backward bandits, were defeated.