antiprogressive
English
editEtymology
editFrom anti- + progressive.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Adjective
editantiprogressive (comparative more antiprogressive, superlative most antiprogressive)
- 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
editTranslations
editantiprogress — see antiprogress
Noun
editantiprogressive (plural antiprogressives)
- 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.