Meanings
adjectiveantiprogressive (comparative more antiprogressive, superlative most antiprogressive)
comparative more antiprogressive · superlative most antiprogressive
- 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
nounantiprogressive (plural antiprogressives)
plural antiprogressives
- 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
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Rhymes with antiprogressive
progressiveimpressiveaggressiveexcessivesuccessiveexpressiveobsessivedepressiveoppressiverepressivecompressiverecessiveimmunosuppressiveregressivepossessivesuppressiveautoregressiveunimpressiveantidepressivetransgressiveretrogressivepressiveprocessivedigressive
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antiprogressive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiprogressive
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antiprogressive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiprogressive.
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