mossbacked
Resistant to change
Mossbacked describes someone or something extremely old-fashioned or resistant to change.
The image is of a creature so stationary that moss grows on its back.
Applied to people, it suggests stubborn conservatism: a mossbacked senator blocking reform, mossbacked attitudes toward women in the workplace.
The noun mossback carries the same meaning.
Anti-progress political stance
- right-wingPolitically conservative faction
- traditionalistAdherent to established customs
- orthodoxConforming to established belief
- diehardStubbornly committed supporter
hardliner · hidebound · fogeyish · stick-in-the-mud · backward-looking · regressive · ultraconservative · Tory
Belonging to earlier times
- outdatedNo longer in use
- archaicBelonging to earlier times
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- antediluvianExtremely old or obsolete
fusty · musty · dated · passé · superannuated · anachronistic · behind-the-times · horse-and-buggy
Refusing to change course
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- unbendingRefusing to change position
- rigidUnable to bend
immovable · intransigent · uncompromising · pigheaded · bullheaded · mulish · obdurate · entrenched
reactionary
Anti-progress political stance
- right-wingPolitically conservative faction
- traditionalistAdherent to established customs
- orthodoxConforming to established belief
diehard · hardliner · hidebound · fogeyish · stick-in-the-mud · backward-looking · regressive · ultraconservative · Tory · bourbon
old-fashioned
Belonging to earlier times
antediluvian · fusty · musty · dated · passé · superannuated · anachronistic · behind-the-times · horse-and-buggy · Victorian
stubborn
Refusing to change course
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- unbendingRefusing to change position
rigid · immovable · intransigent · uncompromising · pigheaded · bullheaded · mulish · obdurate · entrenched · fixed
mossbackedprogressive
Favoring reform and innovation
liberal · radical · reformist · left-wing · revolutionary
mossbackedopen-minded
Receptive to different ideas
innovative · forward-thinking · receptive · progressive · adventurous
mossbackedmodern
Of recent times
contemporary · cutting-edge · up-to-date · newfangled · trendy