progressive

Meanings

Adjective

• Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
• Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
• Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.
• Liberal.
• Of or relating to progressive education.
• Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
• Advancing in severity.
• Continuous.

Noun

• A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
• A progressive verb; a verb used the progressive tense and generally conjugated as to end in -ing.

Related

Opposite words

• regressive
• non-progressive
• conservative
• reactionary

Origin

• . Displaced native .