English Explanatory Dictionary

progressive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
  2. Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
  3. Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
  4. Liberal.
  5. Of or relating to progressive education.
  6. Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
  7. Advancing in severity.
  8. Continuous.
noun
  1. One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
noun
  1. A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
  2. A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
noun
  1. Clipping of progressive dinner
adj
  1. Belonging to or supporting a Progressive Party.
  2. Of or pertaining to such a party, its policies, or its membership.
noun
  1. A member or supporter of a Progressive Party.

Pronunciation

/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-progressive.wav /pɹoʊ-/ /pɹəˈɡɹesɪv/ /pɹəˈɡɹesəv/

Word forms

progressive more progressive most progressive prog. prog progressives

Etymology

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.

Antonyms

regressive non-progressive conservative reactionary

Related words

progress

Derived words

antiprogressive atheroprogressive brogressive fauxgressive hyperprogressive improgressive neoprogressive neuroprogressive nonprogressive oligoprogressive progressism progressive aspect progressive assimilation progressive bluegrass progressive creationism progressive creationist progressive dinner progressive enhancement progressive euchre progressive freefall progressive grid progressive house progressive infantile poliodystrophy progressive jazz progressive longways formation progressive love progressively progressive metal progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy progressiveness progressive overload progressive rap progressive rock progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy progressive stack progressive supper progressive tax progressive tense progressive war progressive web app progressive web application progressivism progressivist progressivity pseudoprogressive technoprogressive ultra-progressive ultraprogressive unprogressive future perfect progressive future progressive past perfect progressive past progressive present perfect progressive present progressive
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