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   progressive

   /prəˈɡrɛsɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. happening or developing gradually or in stages: "a progressive decline in popularity" Similar continuingcontinuousincreasinggrowingdevelopingongoingintensifyingacceleratingescalatinggradualstep by stepcumulative
   • ▪ (of a medical condition) increasing in severity: "progressive liver failure"
   • ▪ (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases: "steeply progressive income taxes"
   • 2. (of a person or idea) favouring social reform: "a relatively progressive Minister of Education"
   • ▪ favouring change or innovation: "the most progressive art school in Britain" Similar liberalreformingreformistmodernadvancedforward-lookingforward-thinkinggo-aheadenlightenedenterprisinginnovativenewdynamicavant-gardemodernisticdisruptiveradicalleft-wingrevolutionaryrevisionistprogressivistfreethinkingpolitically correctPCinformal:wokeright-onOpposite conservativereactionary
   • ▪ relating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1970s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions: "classic progressive albums"
   • 3. denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing.
   • 4. (of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position.
   • 5. engaging in or constituting forward motion. technical

   noun

   • 1. an advocate of social reform: "people tend to present themselves either as progressives or traditionalists on this issue"
   • 2. a progressive tense or aspect: "the present progressive"
   • 3. each of a set of proofs of colour work, showing all the colours separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them.

   Word Origin early 17th century: from French progressif, -ive or medieval Latin progressivus, from progress- ‘gone forward’, from the verb progredi (see progress).

   Derivatives

   • 1. progressiveness noun

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   adjective. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) synonyms: reform-minded, reformist.