Fossil and Progressive

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Fossil noun - A person with old-fashioned ideas.

Usage example: some old fossil who thinks that a boy and a girl shouldn't be together unsupervised until they are engaged

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Progressive is an antonym for fossil.

Nearby Words: fossilized, fossilised, fossilize

Progressive noun - A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.

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Fossil is an antonym for progressive.

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