Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

progressophobe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-gres-so-phobe
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.

Example Sentences

"The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379)."
"The political philosopher John Gray, an avowed progressophobe, has described the contemporary societies of Western Europe as “terrains of violent conflict” in which “peace and war [are] fatally blurred."
"Academics are, apparently, “progressophobes” who chip away at the public's confidence in conventional politics and, through this, may have unwittingly created a vacuum that populism has filled."

Etymology

From progress + -o- + -phobe.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: progress
Suffix: -o-

Inflected Forms

progressophobes (plural)

Questions

What does progressophobe mean?: One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
Where does progressophobe come from?: From progress + -o- + -phobe.

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