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RELATED WORDS : future progressive future progressive tense past progressive past progressive tense present progressive present progressive tense progressive aspect progressive emphysematous necrosis progressive party progressive rock progressive tax progressive tense progressive vaccinia

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Noun progressive has 2 senses

• progressive(n = noun.linkdef) continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going; Array
is a kind of tense
has particulars: present progressive, present progressive tense, past progressive, past progressive tense, future progressive, future progressive tense

• progressive(n = noun.person) liberal, liberalist - a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties; Array
is a kind of adult, grownup
has particulars: armchair liberal, latitudinarian, neoliberal, pluralist, whig
Derived forms adjective progressive₂, adjective progressive₁

Adjective progressive has 6 senses

• progressive(a = adj.all) Array - favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools"
Derived forms noun progressive₂, noun progressiveness₁
Antonym: regressive

• progressive(s = adj.all) reform-minded, reformist - favoring or promoting reform (often by government action); Array
Derived forms noun progressive₂, noun progressiveness₁, noun progressivity₁

• progressive(a = adj.all) Array - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases; Array
Antonym: regressive

• progressive(s = adj.all) Array - gradually advancing in extent; Array
• progressive(s = adj.all) Array - (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"
• progressive(s = adj.all) Array - advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis"

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progressive

Fabian, a la mode, advanced, advancing, ameliorative, ascending, avant-garde, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, bettering, catenary, consecutive, contemporary, continuing, continuous, descending, developing, down-trending, downward, drifting, dynamic, extremist, far out, fashionable, flowing, fluent, flying, forward, forward-looking, go-ahead, going, gradual, growing, gyrational, gyratory, improving, in, increasing, left, left of center, left-wing, left-winger, leftist, liberal, liberalist, liberalistic, lineal, linear, looking up, meliorative, meliorist, mending, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, mounting, moving, newfashioned, now, on the left, on the lift, on the mend, oncoming, ongoing, onward, ordinal, passing, plunging, present-day, present-time, proceeding, progressing, progressionist, progressist, progressivist, progressivistic, radical, reflowing, refluent, reformer, reformist, regressive, retrogressive, revisionist, revolutionary, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, sideward, sinking, soaring, step by step, streaming, streamlined, successional, successive, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, up-trending, upward, utopian, utopist, way out, welfare stater

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Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

Continuity

N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.

Course

N corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time, duration, aorist, elapsing, aoristic, progressive, in due time, in due season, in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time, in time, labitur et labetur, truditur dies die, fugaces labuntur anni, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this.

Progression

N progress, progression, progressiveness, advancing, advance, advancement, ongoing, flood, tide, headway, march, rise, improvement, advancing, progressive, profluent, advanced, forward, onward, forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to, in progress, in mid progress, in transitu, vestigia nulla retrorsum, westward the course of empire takes its way.

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