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.

Derived terms

• antiprogressivism

 

Translations

antiprogress — see antiprogress

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.