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1. (adj.) progressive
advocating progress or reform, esp. in political and social matters.
2. progressive
employing or advocating more liberal ideas, new methods, etc.:
a progressive community.
3. progressive
noting or characterized by progress, progression, reform, innovation, etc.
4. progressive
(cap.) of or pertaining to a Progressive Party.
5. progressive
going forward or onward; passing successively from one stage to the next.
6. progressive
continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.
7. progressive
pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases as taxable income increases.
8. progressive
pertaining to or practicing progressive education:
progressive schools.
9. progressive
of or designating a verb tense, aspect, or form typically used to indicate that an action or event is, was, or will be going on at some temporal point of reference.
10. (n.) progressive
a person who favors progress or reform, as in politics.
11. progressive
(cap.) a member of a Progressive Party.
12. progressive
the progressive tense or aspect.
13. progressive
a verb form or construction in the progressive tense or aspect, as am listening or
was sleeping.
Etymology: (1600–10)
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| Definition of 'progressive' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense
a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
2. (adj) liberal, liberalist, progressive
a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
3. (adj) progressive
favoring or promoting progress
"progressive schools"
4. (adj) progressive, reformist, reform-minded
favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
5. (adj) progressive
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
6. (adj) progressive
gradually advancing in extent
7. (adj) progressive
(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
"progressive euchre"; "progressive tournaments"
8. (adj) progressive
advancing in severity
"progressive paralysis"
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1. (adjective) progressive
interested in or involving new ideas that will improve sth
progressive leaders hoping to find solutions to today's problems
2. progressive
developing or increasing gradually
progressive tumor growth
3. progressive
in grammar, used to mean "continuous"
a progressive tense
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| Definition of 'progressive' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) progressive
moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde
2. (adj) progressive
improving; as, art is in a progressive state
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| Definitions of 'progressive' |
The Roycroft Dictionary |
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progressive
1. A politician who wears his opinions pompadour.
2. An obstructionist who grows fat on conservatism and conversation.
3. A reactionary to whom movement and motion are necessary in order to keep warm, and secure gulps and guzzles.
4. A hungry or unsuccessful person; hence, an explosive, quixotic fellow with empty pockets and a shallow pate.
5. One who has felt the slings and arrows of outrageous success that has come to others.
6. A political piker, who will not play the game according to the rules which he himself devised.
7. One who would recall all decisions that do not uphold his claims.
8. A man who steals a label, and clapping it on himself, thinks that he is It.
9. A plan for going forward by backing up to mob rule. (The first Progressive of whom we know was Judas. The next was Ananias. Lazarus was a Progressive, and had he married the Queen of Sheba he would have changed places with Dives. _E. g._, "This age belongs to the Progressives."--From Kazook's _Confessions of a Popular Lick-Spittle_.)
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Sense: developing and advancing by stages
a progressive illness.
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 Afrikaans: progressief |
 Arabic: مُتَقَدِّم، تَصاعُدي |
 Bulgarian: напредничав |
 Brazilian: progressivo |
 Czech: postupující |
 German: fortschreitend |
 Danish: fremadskridende |
 Greek: προοδευτικός |
 Spanish: progresivo |
 Estonian: progresseeruv |
 Farsi: پیش رونده |
 Finnish: etenevä |
 French: progressif |
 Hebrew: מְדוֹרָג |
 Hindi: वर्धमान |
 Hungarian: kifejlődő |
 Indonesian: berkembang |
 Icelandic: stigvaxandi |
 Italian: progressivo |
 Japanese: 進行する |
 Korean: 진행성의 |
 Lithuanian: progresuojantis, progresy |
 Latvian: progresējošs; attīstībā e |
 Malay: progresif |
 Dutch: progressief |
 Norwegian: progressiv |
 Polish: postępowy, postępujący |
 Persian: پیش رونده |
 Pashto: مخكى تلونكى |
 Portuguese: progressivo |
 Romanian: progresiv |
 Russian: постепенный; прогрессирую |
 Slovak: postupujúci |
 Slovenian: progresiven, napredujoč |
 Serbian: progresivan |
 Swedish: [gradvis] tilltagande |
 Thai: ที่ดีขึ้น |
 Turkish: ilerleyen, gittikçe artan |
 Taiwanese: 漸進的，累進的 |
 Ukrainian: прогресивний |
 Urdu: ترقي پذير |
 Vietnamese: tiến triển |
 Chinese: 渐进的，累进的 |
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