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progressivist

progressivist

1 7.6
Supporting new social or political ideas and changes
  • adjective
  • /prəˈɡrɛsɪvɪst/
translation icon : progresista
  • Many educators embrace a progressivist approach to teaching that encourages hands-on learning.
  • progressivist conception

Examples

  • The "joining in" here encourages children's ontological perspective to be consciously progressivist, alert to the condition of adulthood, to seek authenticity in the present and celebrate possibility in the future.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Although Tolstoy also rejected such claims, his most interesting comments pertain to the second intelligentsia tenet, the progressivist conception of social insight.

    Academic text (1994)
  • And without obstacles, the notion of development, at least in its progressivist sense, is inconceivable.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Central to intelligentsia ideology was a progressivist conception of social insight.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The AP, along with the rest of the Progressivist media, long ago bought into this cheery pronunciamento from the mass mind.

    Blog text (17)
  • That's not a huge change in favor of progressivist ideals, but it does show to me that at least to some degree, that shellacking must have caught his attention.

    Blog text (10)
  • But the biological and geological passages of In Memoriam record the progressivist catastrophism of his time, not the evolutionary theory of Darwin's world to come.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The critique could come to us either from the East or from the residual internal critics because it is based in a theological framework different from the modern, progressivist, and historicistic one.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Now that supposition is nothing other than a kind of dogma of the progressivist faith—one that flies in the face of the facts on the ground.

    Blog text (13)
  • The contribution of Marxists to this ethnocentric reasoning should not be overlooked, although this view is clearly a part of mainstream linear, progressivist conceptions of modernity more widely.

    Academic text (2008)

Antonyms

4.6

Does not want big changes and likes traditional values

How Progressive

radical
462 6.0
progressivist
1 7.6

Surface Forms

progressivist positive

Morphology

progressivist = progressive (transparent) = progress + ive + ist

Formed by adding the productive agent/relational suffix '-ist' to 'progressive', a common adjective meaning favoring reform; the meaning follows standard English morphology.

Etymology

Progressivist comes from progress, which itself comes from old parts pro- 'forward' and gress 'step', giving the image of 'moving forward'. So a progressivist approach as an adjective means supporting new ideas or reforms that move society 'forward'.