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antiprogressive en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + progressive.

Meanings

  1. Opposing progress.
    • Others considered themselves “alt-lite,” or merely antiprogressive. 2019 August 6, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times:

Forms

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most antiprogressive Degree=Sup lexicographic
more antiprogressive Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

antiprogressiveness · antiprogressivism

antiprogressive en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + progressive.

Meanings

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

Forms

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antiprogressives Number=Plur lexicographic