PROGRESSISM Antonyms

• remaining in place

• the quality of not moving

• a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

• weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

• the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)

• a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards

• the political orientation of reactionaries

• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases

• opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state

• passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

• returning to a former state

• a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

• inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation

• strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings

• adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)

• the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions

• the existing state of affairs