unprogressive

adjwith outdated ideas

Word Origin & History

c.1600, "characterized by advancement" (in action, character, etc.), from progress (n.) + -ive, or else from French progressif, from past participle stem of Latin progredi. Of taxation, from 1889; of jazz, from 1947. Meaning "characterized by striving for change and innovation, avant-garde, liberal" is from 1908.

In the socio-political sense "favoring reform; radically liberal," it emerged in various British contexts from the 1880s; in the U.S. it was active as a movement in the 1890s and a generation thereafter, the name being taken again from time to time, most recently by some more liberal Democrats and other social activists, by c.2000. The noun in the sense "one who favors social and political change in the name of progress" is first attested 1865 (originally ...

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Example Sentences for unprogressive

The Government was unprogressive, and fees and salaries were high.

She should guard against becoming autocratic and unprogressive.

That is to say, he prefer his hands to be unprogressive and in debt.

Her bigotry is that of age, her unprogressive slowness of change is senile.

I felt no condemnation; yet the memory, static, unprogressive, haunted me.

An endless (it may ...

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