standpat

[stand-pat]

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noun

standpatter.

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adjective

characterized by refusing to consider or accept change.

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Origin of standpat

First recorded in 1900–05; noun, adj. use of verb phrase stand pat

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Related Words for standpat

rightist, rigid, regressive, counterrevolutionary, ultraconservative, unreconstructed, old-line, traditionalist, reactionary, diehard, classicist, moderate, zealot, fanatic, fundamentalist, right, obscurantist, Tory, stick-in-the-mud, redneck