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progressive
/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
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What does progressive mean?
adjective
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
More meanings (12)
adjective
- Liberal.
- Of or relating to progressive education.
- Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- Advancing in severity.
- Continuous.
- Belonging to or supporting a Progressive Party.
- Of or pertaining to such a party, its policies, or its membership.
noun
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- 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.
- Clipping of progressive dinner
- A member or supporter of a Progressive Party.
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IPA pronunciation
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Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.
In the main, perhaps, it has been a reactionary and troublesome movement in the cities, and a progressive movement among the farmers.
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We marvel why, among the most progressive Western nations, architecture should be so devoid of originality, so replete with repetitions of obsolete styles.
From that time on she had suffered pain and distress in breathing and swallowing, and became the subject of progressive emaciation.
Canker, on the other hand, is slowly progressive, and soon shows the characteristic fungoid excresences, which growths are in thrush never seen.