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See also: Progressive
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- prog. (abbreviation)
- prog (clipping)
Etymology
[edit]From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/, /pɹoʊ-/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /pɹəˈɡɹesɪv/
- Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
- Hyphenation: pro‧gress‧ive
Adjective
[edit]progressive (comparative more progressive, superlative most progressive)
- 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
- (politics) Liberal.
- 2016, Richard Lints, Progressive and Conservative Religious Ideologies, page i:
- 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 recognized.
- (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
- a progressive school
- (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- Advancing in severity.
- progressive paralysis
- (grammar) Continuous.
Antonyms
[edit]- regressive
- (antonym(s) of “advancing in severity”): non-progressive
- conservative
- reactionary
Derived terms
[edit]- antiprogressive
- atheroprogressive
- brogressive
- fauxgressive
- hyperprogressive
- improgressive
- neoprogressive
- neuroprogressive
- nonprogressive
- oligoprogressive
- progressive aspect
- progressive assimilation (phonology)
- progressive bluegrass
- progressive creationism
- progressive creationist
- progressive dinner
- progressive enhancement
- progressive euchre
- progressive house
- progressive infantile poliodystrophy
- progressive jazz
- progressive longways formation
- progressive love
- progressively
- progressive metal
- progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- progressiveness
- progressive overload
- progressive rap
- progressive rock
- progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy
- progressive stack
- progressive supper
- progressive tax
- progressive tense
- progressive war
- progressive web app
- progressive web application
- progressivism
- progressivist
- progressivity
- pseudoprogressive
- technoprogressive
- ultraprogressive
- ultra-progressive
- unprogressive
Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]progressive (plural progressives)
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.
Translations
[edit]favouring or promoting progress; advanced
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gradually advancing in extent; increasing
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promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods
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politically liberal
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of or relating to progressive education
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increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases
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advancing in severity
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continuous — see continuous
Noun
[edit]progressive (plural progressives)
- A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
- (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Translations
[edit]A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government
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Noun
[edit]progressive (plural progressives)
- Clipping of progressive dinner.
Further reading
[edit]- "progressive" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 243.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]progressive
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]progressive
- inflection of progressiv:
Interlingua
[edit]Adjective
[edit]progressive (comparative plus progressive, superlative le plus progressive)
- progressive, gradually increasing, progressing
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]progressive
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]prōgressīve
Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]progressive
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