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mossbacked

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of mossbacked

tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions

the restaurant's mossbacked owner refuses to bow to contemporary casualness and relax his dress code

Synonyms of mossbacked

archconservative, brassbound, button-down (or buttoned-down), conservative, die-hard, hidebound, old-fashioned, old-line, old-school, orthodox, paleoconservative, reactionary, standpat, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unprogressive

Words Related to mossbacked

conventional, square

devoted, faithful, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true, true-blue

blimpish, neoconservative, Tory, ultraright, ultrarightist

dowdy, fogyish (or fogeyish), fuddy-duddy, ossified, set, stodgy

right, right-wing

antiliberal, antimodern, antiprogressive, antireform, antirevolutionary

Near Antonyms of mossbacked

anticonventional, antiestablishment, antitraditional, extremist, radical, revolutionary

advanced, contemporary, modern

lefty, radical, ultraleft, ultraleftist, ultraprogressive, ultraradical

Antonyms of mossbacked

broad-minded, large-minded, liberal, nonconservative, nonconventional, nonorthodox, nontraditional, open-minded, progressive, unconventional, unorthodox

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