Mossback and Progressive

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Mossback noun - A person with old-fashioned ideas.

Usage example: those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed

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Progressive is an antonym for mossback.

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

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Mossback is an antonym for progressive.

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Progressive and Mossback. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/mossback/progressive

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