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Progressive   /prəgrˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Progressive

adjective
1.
Favoring or promoting progress.  Antonym: regressive.
2.
Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action).  Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist.
3.
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases.  Antonym: regressive.
4.
Gradually advancing in extent.
5.
(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position.  "Progressive tournaments"
6.
Advancing in severity.
noun
1.
A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going.  Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense.
2.
A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.  Synonyms: liberal, liberalist.  Antonym: conservative.



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"Progressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... law. The agricultural preemptors contend that different rules of right as to the power of individual or private occupation, and as to the criteria of valid occupation, apply to them, as against their adversaries. The municipal preemptors contend that the same rules of equal right, inceptive and progressive, in these respects, apply to both classes of preemptors. I think that the latter view of the law is correct, according to its letter, its spirit; and the settled practice of ...
— Minnesota and Dacotah • C.C. Andrews
... succession, the Roman Catholic Clericals (who occupy the exact centre of the floor and are thus known as the Zentrum, or Centre Party). The "Centre" includes many priests, mostly Rhinelanders and Bavarians. Then come the National Liberals, the violently anti-British and anti-American Party, the Progressive People's Party, and the Social Democrats. The latter are on the "extreme left." That is why they are often so described in reports of Reichstag proceedings abroad. The Socialists comprise 111 out of ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... progressive division of labor, work has become more and more mechanical. A definite share of overfatigue and its sequels, especially neurasthenia, must be ascribed to this monotony—to the absence of spontaneity ...
— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
... less happy in his subject, nor less ingenious and eloquent in its illustration. His object was to present, in all its force, the motive to intellectual and literary effort. He assumed the progressive nature of the human mind; referred to the advances already made in science and the arts, and in civil governments; noticed the tendencies in society to higher improvements; and glanced at the facilities for social happiness and intellectual and moral excellence, in this ...
— Memoirs of General Lafayette • Lafayette
... This is scarcely true; but it is a fact that the upper, the middle, and the lower classes among us begin to recognize the existence of children under six years of age, and realize that far from being nonentities in life, or unknown quantities, they are very lively units in the sum of progressive education. ...
— Children's Rights and Others • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin


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