MODERNIZERS Antonyms

• of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities

• of or relating to antiques or antiquities

• an expert or collector of antiquities

• resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion

• a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

• a member of a Conservative Party

• having social or political views favoring conservatism

• avoiding excess

• unimaginatively conventional

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism

• opposed to political or social liberalism or reform

• moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

• of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma

• going from better to worse

• moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

• move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

• move in a direction contrary to the usual one

• move back

• go back over

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

• someone who insists on something

• one who adheres to traditional views

• stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded

• someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas