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Standpat

adjective
1.
Old-fashioned and out of date.  Synonyms: fusty, nonprogressive, unprogressive.





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... thereof. But why, oh why, didn't he name the trees? If he had known enough of the science to partake of the fruit of the tree of life he might have lived long enough to write a systematic botany, satisfactory alike to the Harvard school of standpat systematists and their manual-ripping rivals in nomenclature. But he didn't; and no one else may ...
— Some Winter Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell


Words linked to "Standpat" :   conservative


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