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🧓 Old-fashioned 🛑 Not worsening
nonprogressive

nonprogressive

4.9
A condition that does not get worse over time
  • adjective
  • /nɒnprəˈɡrɛsɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no progresivo
  • The patient's condition was classified as nonprogressive, meaning there would be no further decline in health.

Examples

  • Moderate to severe, nonprogressive sensorineural hearing loss has also been reported.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Investigations of memory remediation techniques have been promising and suggest that intervention can improve memory functioning in individuals with nonprogressive brain damage.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The nature of her nonprogressive condition allowed her to maintain a stable quality of life.

  • Doctors assured the family that the nonprogressive disease would not worsen over time.

Synonyms

nonfluctuating
vsnonprogressive
6.3

Staying the same over time

is about no long term increase or decline rather than exact sameness
noncumulative
vsnonprogressive
6.1

Not added to earlier amounts and shown separately for each period

focuses on lack of ongoing increase or worsening rather than just not adding up

Antonyms

progressive
52 4.9

Happening slowly over time and becoming more serious

How Stable

permanent
650 3.2
stable
473 2.3
nonprogressive
  • Specialized
4.9
steady
304 2.0
changing
2.4
volatile
77 7.0

Surface Forms

nonprogressive positive

Morphology

nonprogressive = progressive (transparent) = non + progressive

In medical contexts 'progressive' means worsening or changing over time; the prefix 'non-' directly negates that meaning.

Etymology

Nonprogressive is made from the parts non- meaning 'not' and progressive from progress meaning 'to move forward'. In medicine, a nonprogressive condition means it 'does not get worse' and stays about the same over time.