progressive

  • (a) favoring or promoting progress
    • progressive schools
  • (s) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) reformist, reform-minded,
  • (a) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
  • (s) gradually advancing in extent
  • (s) (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
  • (s) advancing in severity
    • progressive paralysis

Nouns

Synonyms

continuous tense imperfect imperfect tense progressive tense liberal liberalist reformist reform-minded

Antonyms

regressive conservative conservativist

See also

forward industrial

Words of close approximity

progression
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