progressivist

American  

[pruh-gres-iv-ist] / prəˈgrɛs ɪv ɪst /

adjective

1. committed to, pursuing, or enacting a progressive social or political agenda.

2. characteristic of social or political progressives.

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noun

plural

progressivists

1. a person who is committed to a progressive social or political agenda; a progressive.

Other Word Forms

• anti-progressivist adjective
• non-progressivist adjective
• progressivism noun

Example Sentences

In Brahms, Schoenberg found progressivist harmonic thinking that was logically heading toward atonality.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

In short, Bach, in his unswerving religious conservatism, was living and working very much at odds with the progressivist currents of his day, and ours.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018

A proper assessment of this document renders absurd any notion that Bach was a progressivist or a secularist.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018

Thus the impetus behind Bach’s remark was not progressivist but doctrinal.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018

Yet I did not see myself as a progressivist and a humanitarian.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel