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Progressive

Progressive Meaning & Definition
Progressive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Progressive?

[n] a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
[n] a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
[adj] favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
[adj] advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis"
[adj] favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools"
[adj] (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases
[adj] gradually advancing in extent

Synonyms | Synonyms for Progressive: active | advanced | advancing | continuous tense | degressive | forward | forward-looking | forward-moving | graduated | imperfect | imperfect tense | increasing | incremental | innovative | liberal | liberal | modern | modernised | modernized | progressive tense | proportional | reformist | state-of-the-art

Related Terms | Find terms related to Progressive:

See Also | adult | future progressive | future progressive tense | grownup | industrial | latitudinarian | neoliberal | past progressive | past progressive tense | pluralist | present progressive | present progressive tense | tense | Whig

Progressive In Webster's Dictionary

\Pro*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. {Progressive euchre} or {whist}, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. {Progressive muscular atrophy} (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. -- {Pro*gress"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Pro*gress"ive*ness}, n.

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