progressive.
Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
Meaning & usage
Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
a progressive politician
progressive business leadership
Liberal.
Of or relating to progressive education.
a progressive school
Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
Advancing in severity.
progressive paralysis
Continuous.
Where this word comes from
From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.
Where this word comes from
From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
Where this word comes from
From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
Clipping of progressive dinner
Where this word comes from
From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
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