| ADJECTIVE | all | progressive | favoring / favoring or promoting progress |
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| all | progressive, reformist, reform-minded | favoring / favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | |
| all | progressive | (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | |
| all | progressive | gradually advancing in extent | |
| all | progressive | (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | |
| all | progressive | advancing in severity | |
| NOUN | relation | progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense | a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going |
| person | progressive, liberal, liberalist | a person who favors / favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties |
| Sounds | prahgreh'sihv | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | favoring / favoring or promoting progress. | |
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| Example | "progressive schools" | |
| Narrower | advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern | ahead of the times |
| advancing, forward, forward-moving | Moving forward | |
| modernized, modernised | brought up to date | |
| state-of-the-art | The highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time) | |
| See also | forward | At or near or directed / directed toward the front |
| industrial | Having highly developed industries | |
| Opposite | regressive | Opposing progress |
| Spanish | progresista, progresivo | |
| Nouns | progressive | a person who favors / favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties |
| progressiveness | advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | |
| Meaning | favoring / favoring or promoting reform (often by government action). | |
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| Synonyms | reformist, reform-minded | |
| Category | government, governing, governance, government activity, administration | The act of governing |
| Broader | liberal | Tolerant of change |
| Spanish | progresista, reformista | |
| Catalan | progresista, progressista, reformista | |
| Nouns | progressive | a person who favors / favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties |
| progressiveness, progressivity | advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | |
| Meaning | (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases. | |
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| Category | tax, taxation, revenue enhancement | Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government |
| Narrower | degressive | (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount |
| Opposite | regressive | (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases |
| Spanish | progresivo | |
| Meaning | gradually advancing in extent. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | increasing | Becoming greater or larger |
| Spanish | progresivo | |
| Adverbs | progressively | advancing in amount or intensity |
| Meaning | (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position. | |
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| Broader | ordered | Having a systematic arrangement |
| Meaning | Advancing in severity. | |
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| Example | "progressive paralysis" | |
| Broader | active | tending to become more severe or wider in scope |
| Spanish | progresivo | |
| Catalan | progressiu | |
| Meaning | A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going. | |
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| Synonyms | progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense | |
| Narrower | future progressive, future progressive tense | A progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future |
| past progressive, past progressive tense | A progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past | |
| present progressive, present progressive tense | A tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance | |
| Broader | tense | A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
| Spanish | imperfecto | |
| Catalan | imperfet | |
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