progressive
adjective
1. favoring or promoting progress
- progressive schools
Similar word(s): forward, industrial, advanced, innovative, modern, advancing, forward, modernised, modernized
2. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
Similar word(s): liberal, reformist
3. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
Similar word(s): degressive
4. gradually advancing in extent
Similar word(s): increasing
5. (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- progressive euchre
- progressive tournaments
Similar word(s): ordered
6. advancing in severity
- progressive paralysis
Similar word(s): active
Sentences with progressive as an adjective:
- a progressive politician
- progressive business leadership
- a progressive school
noun
1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
Similar word(s): imperfect
Definition categories: link, tense
2. a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Similar word(s): liberal, liberalist