Progressive

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  • adjective. Moving forward; advancing.
  • adjective. Proceeding in steps; continuing steadily by increments.
  • adjective. Open to or favoring new ideas, policies, or methods.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a Progressive Party.
  • adjective. Of or relating to progressive education.
  • adjective. Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
  • adjective. Tending to become more severe or wider in scope.
  • adjective. Designating a verb form that expresses an action or condition in progress.
  • adjective. Of or being a style that emphasizes virtuoso technique, rhythmic and melodic complexity, and unconventional forms and instrumentation.
  • noun. A person who is open to or favors new ideas, policies, or methods, especially in politics.
  • noun. A member or supporter of a Progressive Party.
  • noun. A progressive verb form.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Going forward; moving onward; advancing; making progress, in any sense: as, progressive motion or course.
  • Favoring progress; using one's influence or directing one's efforts in the line of advancement or improvement: as, to be progressive in one's ideas about education; a progressive age.
  • Indicative of progress.
  • and a myopathic form, related to pseudohypertrophic paralysis.
  • noun. One who is in favor of progress; one who promotes or commends reforms or changes: opposed to conservative.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; ; -- opposed to retrograde.
  • adjective. Improving.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
  • adjective. Favoring improvement, change, progress, or reform, especially in a political context; -- used of people. Contrasted with conservative.
  • adjective. Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or education, holding tolerant and liberal ideas, and generally favoring improvement in civic life; -- of towns and communities.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
  • adjective. Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
  • adjective. Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.
  • adjective. Of or relating to progressive education.
  • adjective. Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
  • adjective. Advancing in severity.
  • adjective. liberal (politically)
  • adjective. continuous
  • noun. A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
  • noun. A progressive verb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
  • adjective. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
  • adjective. favoring or promoting progress
  • noun. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
  • adjective. gradually advancing in extent
  • adjective. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
  • adjective. advancing in severity
  • adjective. (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
  • Word Usage
    "They use the term progressive to try to put such unequal taxation in a positive light."
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