Definitions for: 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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: 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

Antonyms: conservative, conservativist, regressive

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

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