antiprogressive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ progressive

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

antiprogressive (plural antiprogressives)

  1. One who opposes progress.