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Progressive

prəˈɡrɛsɪv

Progressive definitions

adjective

Inflections:

progressive

happening or developing gradually or in stages

"a progressive decline in popularity"

Synonyms:
continuing continuous increasing growing developing ongoing intensifying accelerating escalating
- (of a medical condition) increasing in severity
  
  "progressive liver failure"
- (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases
  
  "steeply progressive income taxes"
(of a person or idea) favouring social reform

"a relatively progressive Minister of Education"
- favouring change or innovation
  
  "the most progressive art school in Britain"
- relating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1970s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions
  
  "classic progressive albums"
denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing
(of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position
engaging in or constituting forward motion

Synonyms:
moving forwards moving ahead onward advancing progressing progressive

noun

Inflections:

progressive progressives

an advocate of social reform

"people tend to present themselves either as progressives or traditionalists on this issue"

Synonyms:
liberal reformer reformist innovator progressivist progressionist left-winger leftist
a progressive tense or aspect

"the present progressive"
each of a set of proofs of colour work, showing all the colours separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them