Antonyms for progressive

Antonyms for (noun) progressive

Main entry: progressive, liberal, liberalist

Definition: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Antonyms: conservative, conservativist

Definition: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas


Antonyms for (adj) progressive

Main entry: progressive

Definition: favoring or promoting progress

Usage: progressive schools

Antonyms: regressive

Definition: opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state


Antonyms: backward

Definition: directed or facing toward the back or rear


Antonyms: reverse

Definition: of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle


Antonyms: backward

Definition: (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature


Antonyms: backward, backwards, back, rearward, rearwards

Definition: at or to or toward the back or rear


Antonyms: back, backward

Definition: in or to or toward a past time


Antonyms: old style, old style font

Definition: a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes


Antonyms: nonmodern

Definition: not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time


Main entry: progressive

Definition: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

Antonyms: regressive

Definition: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases


Main entry: progressive

Definition: advancing in severity

Usage: progressive paralysis

Antonyms: inactive

Definition: not active physically or mentally


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: not engaged in full-time work


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly


Antonyms: inactive, passive

Definition: lacking in energy or will


Antonyms: inactive, dormant

Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct


Antonyms: extinct

Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive


Antonyms: stative

Definition: ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action


Antonyms: passive

Definition: expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb


Antonyms: inactive

Definition: not exerting influence or change


Antonyms: quiet

Definition: of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.


Main entry: progressive, reform-minded, reformist

Definition: favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

Antonyms: conservative, conservativist

Definition: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas


Antonyms: conservative

Definition: resistant to change


Main entry: progressive

Definition: (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position

Usage: progressive euchre; progressive tournaments

Antonyms: unordered, disordered

Definition: not arranged in order


Main entry: progressive

Definition: gradually advancing in extent

Antonyms: decreasing

Definition: becoming less or smaller


Antonyms: decreasing

Definition: music


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