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backward-looking
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Opposing progress and innovation
Opposing political or social progress or reform
Dealing with past events or situations in a backward manner
Old, traditional or classical in style or manner
Belonging to or characteristic of a past historical time, especially in style or design
Old-fashioned in attitude or style
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Adjective
▲
Opposing progress and innovation
conservative
traditional
traditionalist
unprogressive
standpat
traditionalistic
conventionalist
fogyish
fundamentalist
unadventurous
unchanging
old-fashioned
old-line
old-school
reactionary
orthodox
ultraconservative
brassbound
button-down
buttoned-down
mossbacked
ingrained
hard-and-fast
paleoconservative
ossified
established
deep-seated
archconservative
die-hard
conventional
hidebound
fixed
conformist
illiberal
stable
moderate
set in one's ways
old line
stick in the mud
fuddy-duddy
hard hat
dyed-in-the-wool
middle-of-the-road
old guard
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“But she also criticized
backward-looking
attitudes of some local producers who refused to share know-how with each other.”
Adjective
▲
Opposing political or social progress or reform
obscurantist
conservative
hidebound
reactionary
traditionalist
diehard
illiberal
doctrinaire
obscurant
old-fashioned
traditional
orthodox
ultraconservative
paleoconservative
brassbound
traditionalistic
standpat
archconservative
mossbacked
conventional
Tory
right
rightist
blimpish
rigid
intransigent
retrogressive
counterrevolutionary
regressive
Birchite
unprogressive
bigoted
old-school
button-down
ultra-conservative
buttoned-down
old-line
counter-revolutionary
right-wing
die-hard
alt-right
Adjective
▲
Dealing with past events or situations in a backward manner
retrospective
retroactive
backdated
retrograde
revisional
backward
ex post facto
Adjective
▲
Old, traditional or classical in style or manner
old school
traditional
conservative
classic
classical
old
conventional
customary
past
rooted
habitual
unprogressive
acceptable
accustomed
popular
regular
long-established
time-honored
old-fashioned
old line
earlier generation
family
old-school
universal
traditionalist
Adjective
▲
Belonging to or characteristic of a past historical time, especially in style or design
retro
quaint
vintage
antique
oldfangled
retrograde
old
dated
bygone
passé
past
former
nostalgic
historical
passe
retrogressive
period
evocative
old-fashioned
gerontogeous
old-time
old-world
old-school
old-timey
out of date
out-of-date
olde worlde
of yesteryear
in period style
old world
outmoded
outdated
archaic
antiquated
ancient
obsolete
old hat
superannuated
prehistoric
old-fangled
traditional
behind the times
obsolescent
historic
outworn
antediluvian
medieval
US
mossy
demoded
mediaeval
UK
out of the ark
heritage
classical
out
unfashionable
veteran
anachronistic
rusty
olden
primitive
creaky
mouldy
UK
clunky
musty
fusty
old-style
fossilized
US
moldy
US
antwacky
fossilised
UK
moth-eaten
out of fashion
old-fogeyish
old-hat
passé
olde
classic
colonial
enduring
timeless
ageless
remote
aged
antiquarian
elderly
primeval
US
primordial
immemorial
last year's
ancestral
early
primaeval
UK
frumpish
frumpy
prehistorical
fogeyish
age-old
past your sell-by date
past its sell-by date
as old as the hills
horse and buggy
superseded
unpopular
moribund
neolithic
crusty
démodé
cobwebby
unstylish
square
time-honoured
old style
kaputt
out-of-style
Noachian
kaput
out of style
Stone Age
defunct
dead
unhip
feudal
extinct
crusted
dowdy
rococo
vieux jeu
horse-and-buggy
past it
of olden days
out of it
of old
not modern
not current
not with it
grown old
of the old school
rinky-dink
stale
tired
disused
has-been
worn-out
timeworn
hoary
conservative
expired
of yore
gone
square-toed
late
done
demode
parachronistic
behindhand
dusty
corny
backward
vanished
erstwhile
worn out
overused
tacky
tasteless
old as the hills
cheesy
discarded
discontinued
styleless
trashy
previous
hackneyed
bypast
inelegant
dinosaur
forgotten
relic
threadbare
departed
exhausted
fogyish
unprogressive
grandfather
legacy
anachronous
nonextant
dull
backwards
finished
one-time
long-gone
lost
quondam
venerable
on its last legs
ticky-tack
ticky-tacky
very old
past its prime
back-number
time-worn
geriatric
archaistic
gothic
barbaric
overfamiliar
out-of-fashion
obscure
no longer in use
deprecated
fallen into disuse
fossil
drab
faded
neglected
odd
disapproved
redundant
anachronistical
stuck in time
clapped out
no longer used
had it
done for
unremembered
unrecalled
ex-
abandoned
unusable
yesterday's
not in
dead and gone
having seen better days
done to death
way back
way back when
latter-day
lost and gone
lost in time
consigned to oblivion
old school
no longer fashionable
out of commission
out of use
geezery
no longer in fashion
not fashionable
earlier
completed
at an end
foregone
forepassed
lasting
established
waning
declining
disappearing
aging
US
ageing
UK
long-ago
banal
first
ritual
oldie
trite
sunk in oblivion
gone by
down memory lane
senescent
stereotyped
commonplace
set in one's ways
fuddy-duddy
earliest
hoar
ritualistic
decrepit
hack
stock
tried and true
tried and tested
long-lived
of long ago
long-standing
long-established
unoriginal
shopworn
lapsed
clichéd
sometime
overworked
concluded
cliche
once
onetime
hackney
pristine
obligatory
on the wane
growing old
becoming obsolete
going out of use
on the way out
going out of fashion
on the decline
dying out
worn
aboriginal
original
irrelevant
invalid
back number
frayed
old as Methuselah
cast-off
used
well-worn
world-worn
cliché-ridden
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Adjective
▲
Old-fashioned in attitude or style
fusty
outmoded
dated
outdated
archaic
old
antiquated
antediluvian
creaky
moldy
US
mouldy
UK
passé
antique
square
conservative
dowdy
fogeyish
crusty
dull
old-fashioned
out-of-date
out of date
old-time
behind the times
old-fogeyish
out of the ark
past it
obsolete
superannuated
outworn
prehistoric
medieval
US
ancient
unfashionable
mossy
obsolescent
anachronistic
out
quaint
defunct
clunky
mediaeval
UK
feudal
crusted
old hat
moth-eaten
out of fashion
old-fangled
horse-and-buggy
vieux jeu
olde worlde
old-world
square-toed
out of style
rinky-dink
not with it
bygone
past
musty
former
frumpy
frumpish
behindhand
has-been
back-number
dead
fossilized
US
passe
demoded
prehistorical
moribund
neolithic
rusty
Noachian
not current
of the old school
kaput
kaputt
superseded
vintage
démodé
oldfangled
unhip
tired
parachronistic
backward
anachronous
backwards
grandfather
legacy
fossilised
UK
back number
out-of-style
Stone Age
corny
overfamiliar
old-school
last year's
primitive
extinct
disused
aged
olden
retro
stale
traditional
unstylish
timeworn
antwacky
old-hat
discontinued
retrograde
of yore
old-timey
redundant
horse and buggy
discarded
past its sell-by date
hoary
immemorial
worn-out
no longer in use
as old as the hills
out of commission
unpopular
dusty
unused
unprogressive
old-style
elderly
dinosaur
early
venerable
unusable
overused
fallen into disuse
expired
historical
historic
on its last legs
of old
tacky
tasteless
demode
cheesy
fogyish
styleless
trashy
relic
inelegant
yesterday's
exhausted
worn out
forgotten
passé
unemployed
abandoned
rococo
earliest
inoperative
cobwebby
reactionary
idle
deprecated
fossil
dateless
senescent
primeval
US
primordial
old as the hills
decrepit
classical
antiquarian
had it
done for
ticky-tack
ticky-tacky
primaeval
UK
of long ago
non-functioning
not modern
grown old
of olden days
out of it
dead and gone
very old
ancestral
past its prime
past your sell-by date
not functioning
threadbare
geriatric
gothic
barbaric
archaistic
remote
out-of-fashion
gone
obscure
faded
neglected
odd
disapproved
drab
hoar
clapped out
stuck in time
no longer used
anachronistical
hackneyed
nostalgic
opposed
primal
done to death
age-old
having seen better days
not in
finished
foregone
atavistic
retrogressive
period
previous
heritage
out of use
veteran
no longer fashionable
old school
dry as dust
late
one-time
long-gone
no longer in fashion
antimodern
lapsed
unremembered
erstwhile
unrecalled
ex-
not fashionable
at an end
bypast
way back
way back when
latter-day
vanished
lost
lost and gone
lost in time
consigned to oblivion
waning
declining
stagnant
inactive
disappearing
aging
US
ageing
UK
dormant
time-honoured
inert
quiescent
old style
senior
unreactive
invalid
void
elapsed
no longer active
run out
null and void
doddering
doddery
on the decline
dying out
becoming obsolete
not as young as one used to be
over the hill
on the wane
not as young as one was
growing old
going out of use
on the way out
not long for this world
long in the tooth
decommissioned
going out of fashion
no spring chicken
past your prime
deemed obsolete
written off
button-down
folk
from the past
traditionalistic
buttoned-down
hidebound
mossbacked
familial
prior
ultraconservative
old-line
family
long-established
standpat
lineal
established
die-hard
oral
orthodox
brassbound
unwritten
paleoconservative
archconservative
handed-down
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