Definition of Nonprogressive

1. Adjective. Old-fashioned and out of date.

Exact synonyms: Fusty, Standpat, Unprogressive
Similar to: Conservative

Definition of Nonprogressive

1. Adjective. Not progressive. ¹

2. Noun. One who is not a progressive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonprogressive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonprogressive

nonprofessorial
nonprofessors
nonproficiency
nonproficient
nonprofit
nonprofitable
nonprofits
nonprognosticative
nonprogram
nonprogrammable
nonprogrammatic
nonprogrammed
nonprogrammer
nonprogrammers
nonprogramming
nonprogressive
nonprogressively
nonprogressives
nonprogressor
nonprogressors
nonprojectile
nonprokaryotic
nonproletarian
nonproletarians
nonproliferating
nonproliferation
nonproliferative
nonprolific
nonpromoted
nonpromotional

Literary usage of Nonprogressive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Education by Levi Seeley (1914)
"It has been nonprogressive, making no improvements for many centuries. 3. ... It produces a conservative, untruthful, and nonprogressive people. ..."

2. History of Education by Levi Seeley (1914)
"It has been nonprogressive, making no improvements for many centuries. 3. ... It produces a conservative, untruthful, and nonprogressive people. ..."

3. Technic and scope of cast gold and porcelain inlays with a chapter on by Herman E. S. Chayes (1918)
"Such men are afraid that a gun might go off, and in business are equally nonprogressive. The eternal clerk, messenger boy, cook, and other nonprogressive ..."

4. Dunne: Judge, Mayor, Governor by Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, William Larkin Sullivan (1916)
"... morals, and well-being of its laboring citizens is thus placed at a great disadvantage as compared with a nonprogressive state, which by its failure to ..."

5. Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition by John Clark Ridpath (1897)
"Existing barbarism both progressive and nonprogressive. ... Difference between progressive and nonprogressive parts of human life. ..."

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