incrementalist
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- noun
- /ˌɪnkrəˈmɛntəlɪst/
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incrementalista
- Many incrementalists argue that taking small steps is more effective than attempting a complete overhaul all at once.
Examples
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As an incrementalist, she believed in making small changes to improve the education system over time.
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Similarly, Sullivan was tagged as an incrementalist during the campus coup.
Academic text (2017) -
"I have been described as an incrementalist," she said in a speech on June 18, 2012, at the height of the governance crisis.
Academic text (2017) -
"We have had to become incrementalist," says Sekulow.
Academic text (1994) -
I'm an incrementalist after reading enough policy stuff to see that incrementalism is the speed at which we typically travel.
Blog text (14) -
He is a true incrementalist, and he moved the ball in the right direction, which I believe is what we elect leaders to do.
Blog text (8) -
Both women were described and dismissed as incrementalists, even when such a characterization failed to align with the facts.
Academic text (2017) -
I come from a very active pro-life family that has both incrementalists and hard-liners.
Blog text (23) -
Yet it is not clear that she is any more incrementalist than leaders of UVa's peer institutions or less "strategically dynamic" than UVa's previous presidents whose tenures were of comparable length (such as Robert M. O'Neill, who served as president from 1985 to 1990).
Academic text (2017) -
The organization's incrementalist approach allowed for gradual improvements rather than sweeping reforms.
Synonyms
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A person who supports slow, step-by-step change
Antonyms
How Gradual
Surface Forms
Morphology
incrementalist = incremental (transparent) = increment + al + ist
Derived by adding the productive agent-suffix '-ist' to 'incremental', yielding 'a person who favors incremental change', which is semantically predictable.
Etymology
Incrementalist comes from the word increment, meaning 'a small increase', and the ending -ist means 'a person who likes' something. So an incrementalist is someone who prefers making changes step by step instead of by sudden big actions.