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Progressive   /prəgrˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Progressive

adjective
1.
Favoring or promoting progress.  Antonym: regressive.
2.
Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action).  Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist.
3.
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases.  Antonym: regressive.
4.
Gradually advancing in extent.
5.
(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position.  "Progressive tournaments"
6.
Advancing in severity.
noun
1.
A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going.  Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense.
2.
A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.  Synonyms: liberal, liberalist.  Antonym: conservative.



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"Progressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Ampezzo Valley have kept but little that is peculiar in their dress. Men are naturally more progressive than women, and therefore less picturesque. The tide of fashion has swept them into the international monotony of coat and vest and trousers—pretty much the same, and equally ugly, all over the world. Now and then you may see ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke
... not want it that way, neither does the devil. Thousands of church people instead of praying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, are asking such questions as these: Is it wrong for a Christian to dance? to go to the theater? to visit places of amusement? to play progressive euchre? etc. Why don't they ask such questions as these: Is it wrong to pray? to go to church? to take the sacrament? etc. The fact is, a man or woman filled with the Spirit of Christ knows without asking any questions whether a ...
— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr
... The civilisation of Vraibleusia was progressive, as civilisation always is; and the taste for pine-apples ever on the increase, as the taste for pine-apples ever should be. The supply was regular and excellent, the prices reasonable, and the tradesmen civil. They, of course, had not failed to advance in fair proportion with the national prosperity. ...
— The Voyage of Captain Popanilla • Benjamin Disraeli
... was progressive but steady in its development. Several of these conspicuous members of the world of fashion, rolling in their gaudy carriages and associating with men of high rank and influence, might be found on the registers of the Old Bailey, or had ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... relief to me to know that we were not to be crowded into one of those uncomfortable, stuffy and tiresome French trains. The American hospital train furnished an excellent example of American efficiency, and when contrasted with the French trains. I could not but think how much more progressive our people are than Europeans. We had everything that we needed, and plenty of it. We enjoyed good beds, good food, and sufficient room to move around without encroaching upon the rights and the good natures of others. ...
— In the Flash Ranging Service - Observations of an American Soldier During His Service - With the A.E.F. in France • Edward Alva Trueblood


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