Thesaurus: progressive

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1. a. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
2. a. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
3. adj. favoring or promoting progress
4. adj. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
5. adj. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
6. adj. gradually advancing in extent
7. adj. (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
8. adj. advancing in severity
9. n. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
10. n. a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
11. 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. -- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.
12. j:90/n:10 n. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going a. favoring or promoting progress s. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) a. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases