unreconstructed
2
9.5
- adjective
- /ˌʌnrɪkənˈstrʌktɪd/
:
intransigente
- Despite the changing times, he remains an unreconstructed traditionalist, insisting that the old ways are the best.
Examples
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In any case, the politics of knowledge that is based principally on the affirmation of identity is very similar, and is indeed directly related to the unreconstructed nationalism that has guided so many postcolonial states today.
Academic text (1991) -
While reading O'Hara more systematically, I remained an unreconstructed devotee.
Academic text (1997) -
And Amanda was the only other unreconstructed human aboard.
Fiction book (2000) -
Life in death: it was so primitive, so unreconstructed, so strangely powerful now that Tony saw it out of context.
Fiction book (2000) -
So long as unreconstructed communists ruled in Moscow, the Soviet Union represented a unique threat to American security.
Academic text (2001) -
I guess this is a matter of temperament, or maybe an unreconstructed '60s mindset.
Academic text (2004) -
Behavioral science is as critical of scientifically unreconstructed political opinion today as modern natural science was of scholasticism.
Academic text (1995) -
I should probably further confess, and so date myself, that I am an unreconstructed educational liberal of the Dewey-Piaget-Bruner persuasion.
Academic text (1992) -
Yet Singapore remains an unapologetic and unreconstructed one-party state, replete with secret police, press censorship, and thorough suppression of dissidence.
Academic text (1992) -
The most conservative contender except George Wallace, Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976 because liberals were divided between chastened cold warriors, led primarily by Representative Morris Udall, and unreconstructed cold warriors, led primarily by Senator Jackson.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
217
2.9
Not willing to change your mind even when others try to persuade you
30
5.5
Showing strong ideas and not willing to listen to others
25
5.1
Not willing to accept ideas or ways different from their own
22
7.9
Very unwilling to accept change or new ideas
18
7.5
Not feeling sorry for something and not wanting to change
16
7.5
Refusing to change your opinion or behavior even when others try to persuade you
11
4.7
Not willing to change or accept other ideas
9
5.2
Not willing to accept new ideas or different opinions
6
6.5
Holding strongly to old customs and resisting change
5
6.3
Not willing to accept new ideas or change
4
7.2
Not willing to change habits or the way they do things
3
8.8
A person who refuses to change their opinion or behaviour even when others try to persuade them
3
9.9
Not willing to accept new ideas because of old traditions
1
9.9
Refusing to change beliefs or show regret, even when wrong
1
8.1
Not willing to change your mind or actions
1
8.4
Very traditional in politics and strongly against change
1
6.3
Not willing to listen to or accept new ideas
1
8.0
Old-fashioned and not open to change
A person who does not change their opinion when others try to persuade them
Not willing to accept new ideas and slow to change
Refusing to change an opinion even when people give reasons
Being steady and not changing in feeling or opinion
Not able to change when facing new conditions
Antonyms
A person who has changed their beliefs and actions because of new social, political, or economic ideas
How Conservative
8
8.6
2
9.5
306
4.4
994
1.5
72
3.2
80
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
unreconstructed = reconstructed (semi-transparent) = un + reconstruct + ed
The prefix 'un-' negates the adjective 'reconstructed', but the specific sense of 'unreconstructed' as holding outdated beliefs is not fully transparent.
Etymology
The word unreconstructed is built from un- 'not', plus re- 'again' and construct 'build'. It was once used for people who refused the big changes after a war, so today it means someone who keeps old beliefs and will not change.