progressive
Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
Adjective
- 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.
- Conservative movements were far more progressive than the standard religious narrative of the decade alleges and the notoriously progressive ethos of the era was far more conservative than our collective memory has...
- Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday called for “action, not words” from Democrats, criticizing the approach of some in the progressive wing of the party. - 2025 March 19, Alison Main, “Michigan Democrat says she...
- Of or relating to progressive education.
- a progressive school
- Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- Advancing in severity.
- progressive paralysis
- Continuous.
Origin
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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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
Noun Entry 2
- 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.
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future perfect progressive future progressive past perfect progressive past progressive present perfect progressive present progressive
Noun Entry 3
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.
- Not long ago, few progressives imagined this day would come. They assumed the MAGA movement had been discredited by the shocking images that emerged from the January 6 insurrection, and that Trump was politically...
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Noun abbreviation, alt of
- Clipping of progressive dinner