unprogressive

adjective

un·​pro·​gres·​sive ˌən-prə-ˈgre-siv 

: not progressive

especially : not devoted to or promoting economic, social, or political progress

Public opinion regards almost any discussion of cutting retiree benefits as inhumane, unprogressive, and even barbaric.

—Robert J. Samuelson

unprogressively adverb

Synonyms

• archconservative
• brassbound
• button-down
• buttoned-down
• conservative
• die-hard
• hidebound
• mossbacked
• old-fashioned
• old-line
• old-school
• orthodox
• paleoconservative
• reactionary
• standpat
• traditional
• traditionalistic
• ultraconservative

Examples of unprogressive in a Sentence

a candidate with unprogressive ideas about public education

Recent Examples on the Web

Indeed, the reality for women in Germany has been remarkably unprogressive. —Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2022

There was too much deference to people sowing chaos under the banner of social justice, perhaps for fear of seeming unprogressive. —Nicholas Kristof, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021

Greenwell juxtaposes the narrator's experiences in an unprogressive, formerly Communist country still recovering its infrastructure, to the narrator's own childhood, growing up gay and closeted in the oppressive American South. —Angela Ledgerwood, Esquire, 5 Dec. 2016

Word History

First Known Use

1722, in the meaning defined above