Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unprogressive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not progressive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Not
progressive .
Etymologies
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im- + progressive
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Examples
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They seem to have been superseded by that still more ingenious refinement of modern humanity, the tread-mill, in which _human_ squirrels still perform a similar round of ceaseless, improgressive clambering, which must be nuts to them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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Cathedral cities in England, imperial cities without manufactures in Germany, are all in an improgressive condition.
Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822
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As to individual nations, it is matter of notoriety that they are often improgressive.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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