Usually means: Resists change, upholds existing views.
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  2. standpatter: Collins English Dictionary
  3. standpatter: Wiktionary
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  6. standpatter: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (standpatter)

▸ noun:  One who is resistant to change.

Similar:
reversionist, inveteratist, outstander, antiprogressive, pissant, antiprogressionist, persistor, doctrinaire, intransigentist, retrograde, more...

Opposite:
reformer, progressive, innovator, change agent

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Similar:
reversionist, inveteratist, outstander, antiprogressive, pissant, antiprogressionist, persistor, doctrinaire, intransigentist, retrograde, more...

Opposite:
reformer, progressive, innovator, change agent



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