improgressiveadj.
/ɪmprəʊˈɡrɛsɪv/ Not progressive; unprogressive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [adjective] > opposed to change
Tory1651
unprogressive1722
conservative1802
old-line1803
improgressive1809
old school1816
conservatory1822
conservatist1835
unmarching1837
mossbacked1876
mossy1904
passéist1914
pastist1921
Luddite1957
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 179 Improgressive arrangement is not method.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1870) 222 The immense empire of China improgressive for thirty centuries.
1842 T. De Quincey Goethe in Encycl. Brit. X. 597/2 Cathedral cities in England, imperial cities without manufactures in Germany, are all in an improgressive condition.
Derivatives
improˈgressively adv. without making progress or advance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [adverb] > without making progress or advance
improgressively1848
1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 41 The stormbeaten Atlantic, over which men had for ages been sailing to and fro almost improgressively.
improˈgressiveness n. the quality of being unprogressive, stationary character.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage > lack of
unproficiency1612
improgressiveness1800
1800 S. T. Coleridge Let. 13 Oct. (1956) I. 636 Life is too melancholy a thing for men in general for the doctrine of improgressiveness to remain popular.
1827–48 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1859) 2nd Ser. 312 The other great scandal of philosophy, its improgressiveness, may easily be accounted for.
1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 105 It is this alleged improgressiveness of China that startles the imagination.
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