Progress

Quick meaning: Progress is a noun meaning Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

Meaning

Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

More Meanings

1. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
2. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
3. (now rare) A journey forward; travel.
4. Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
5. (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
6. (intransitive) To develop.
7. (transitive) To expedite.

Example Sentences

Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

Word Forms

• progresses
• progressing
• progressed

Synonyms for progress

Depending on context, synonyms include advance, build, progression, advancement, come on, work up.

Antonyms for progress

Common opposites include regress, retrogress, retrograde, recede, retire, fall back.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include progression, advance, advancement, come on, shape up, build up.

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