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antiprogressive

antiprogressive adjective: opposing progress.

Adjective

antiprogressive (comparative more antiprogressive, superlative most antiprogressive)

  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

Noun

antiprogressive (plural antiprogressives)

  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 of antiprogressive

Adjective
comparativemore antiprogressive
superlativemost antiprogressive
Noun
pluralantiprogressives

Origin of antiprogressive

From anti- + progressive.

Words formed from antiprogressive

Words that rhyme with antiprogressive

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Questions about antiprogressive

What does antiprogressive mean?
Antiprogressive means opposing progress.
What part of speech is antiprogressive?
Antiprogressive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiprogressive in the dictionary

  1. antiprogress
  2. antiprogressionist
  3. antiprogressionists
  4. antiprogressist
  5. antiprogressists
  6. antiprogressive
  7. antiprogressiveness
  8. antiprogressives
  9. antiprogressivism
  10. antiprogressivist
  11. antiprohibition

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