progressive

[pro·gres·sive]

People who are progressive favor reform and civil liberties: this is the opposite of conservative, and means something close to liberal.

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Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.

Noun
a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Noun
a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

Adjective S.
advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis"

Adjective S.
favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

Adjective
favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools"

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Adjective
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases

Adjective S.
gradually advancing in extent


a.
Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.

a.
Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.


Progressive

Pro*gress"ive , a. [Cf. F. progressif.] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre ∨ whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. -- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.

Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.

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Usage Examples

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.

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Other Usage Examples

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general in particular in the field of human intelligence.

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

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