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progressophobes

progressophobes is the plural of progressophobe.

Meaning of progressophobe

Noun

progressophobe (plural progressophobes)

  1. One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
    • The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379).1984, Business International - Volume 31, page 386

Questions about progressophobes

What is progressophobes the plural of?
Progressophobes is the plural of progressophobe.

Words near progressophobes in the dictionary

  1. progressivities
  2. progressivity
  3. progressless
  4. progresslessness
  5. progressophobe
  6. progressophobes
  7. progressor
  8. progressors
  9. progs
  10. proguanil
  11. progue

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