Progressive
[prə'gresɪv] or [prə'ɡrɛsɪv]
Definition
(noun.) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going.
(adj.) advancing in severity; 'progressive paralysis' .
(adj.) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) .
(adj.) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position; 'progressive euchre'; 'progressive tournaments' .
(adj.) favoring or promoting progress; 'progressive schools' .
(adj.) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases .
(adj.) gradually advancing in extent .
Editor: Rudolf--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Morton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Advancing, proceeding.[2]. Improving.
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Examples
- We live on long after our death, and progressively, in progressive devolution. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet no one would seriously maintain that the West is more progressive because it has progressive laws. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Little by little, however, progressive business men saw the advantages to be gained by motor delivery and the motor truck began to gain favor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party on a platform of social reform he crystallized a deep unrest, brought it out of the cellars of resentment into the agora of political discussion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These parts are assembled on progressive traveling tracks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This paper, while still in a damp condition, was passed between the drum and stylus in continuous, progressive motion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To sit with her in sight was happiness, and the proper happiness, for early morning--serene, incomplete, but progressive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This conclusion is bound up with the very idea of education as a freeing of individual capacity in a progressive growth directed to social aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He consequently believes in an innate tendency towards progressive and more perfect development. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But not in progressive communities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A progressive society counts individual variations as precious since it finds in them the means of its own growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Water-spouts have, also, a progressive motion; this is sometimes greater and sometimes less; in some violent, in others barely perceivable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This empire extended eastward to Kashgar, and it must have seemed one of the most progressive and hopeful empires of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The progressives say the issue is between Privilege and the People; the Socialists, that it is between the working class and the master class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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