antiprogressive

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ progressive

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

antiprogressive (comparative more antiprogressive, superlative most antiprogressive)

1. Opposing 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.

Translations

antiprogress — see antiprogress

Noun

antiprogressive (plural antiprogressives)

1. One who opposes progress.