Progressive

/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Favouring or promoting progress; advanced..

Definitions by Sense

1. Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
2. Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
3. Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
4. (politics) Liberal.
5. (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
6. (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
7. Advancing in severity.
8. (grammar) Continuous.

Example Sentences

a progressive politician

progressive business leadership

Conservative movements were far more progressive than the standard religious narrative of the decade alleges and the notoriously progressive ethos of the era was far more conservative than our collective memory has recognized.

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday called for “action, not words” from Democrats, criticizing the approach of some in the progressive wing of the party.

a progressive school

progressive paralysis

The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.

Not long ago, few progressives imagined this day would come. They assumed the MAGA movement had been discredited by the shocking images that emerged from the January 6 insurrection, and that Trump was politically weakened by the barrage of criminal charges against him.

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Word Forms

• more progressive
• most progressive
• prog.
• prog
• progressives

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