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

The traditionalist vision, he argued, “is predicated upon the achievements and traditions of the past as the foundation and guide to the challenges of the present,” while the progressivist view “is ambivalent to the legacy of the past, regarding it partly as a useful point of reference and partly as a source of oppression.”

From Washington Post

One could of course adopt the term ‘progressivist’, but that would elide all the difficulties that are associated with the idea of progress.

From Literature

Through voice-over narration, he directly portrays the purger of Stalinism as a hero still under fire in his own country for his progressivist leanings.

From The Guardian

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

From New York Times