Synonyms of unprogressive

unprogressive

adjective

ˌən-prə-ˈgre-siv 

as in conservative

tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions

a candidate with unprogressive ideas about public education

Synonyms & Similar Words

• conservative
• traditional
• orthodox
• reactionary
• traditionalistic
• conventional
• loyal
• old-fashioned
• hidebound
• old-line
• ultraconservative
• staunch
• old-school
• faithful
• archconservative
• steadfast
• standpat
• true
• die-hard
• devoted
• paleoconservative
• button-down
• stodgy
• steady
• mossbacked
• brassbound
• square
• dowdy
• Tory
• ossified
• true-blue
• neoconservative
• ultraright
• antiliberal
• right-wing
• antimodern
• ultrarightist
• right
• fuddy-duddy
• fogyish
• antirevolutionary
• blimpish
• antiprogressive
• set
• antireform

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• progressive
• liberal
• unorthodox
• nontraditional
• unconventional
• nonconservative
• radical
• revolutionary
• nonconventional
• extremist
• broad-minded
• open-minded
• modern
• antiestablishment
• large-minded
• nonconformist
• contemporary
• advanced
• nonorthodox
• antitraditional
• anticonventional
• lefty
• ultraradical
• ultraleft
• ultraleftist
• ultraprogressive

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unprogressive

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