progressive Definition

progressive
adj

1. Advanced in outlook; using or favouring new methods.

Thesaurus: liberal, avant-garde, radical, forward-looking, revolutionary, modern, reformist, advanced, enlightened, enterprising, up-and-coming; Antonym: regressive, reactionary.
2. Moving forward or advancing continuously or by stages.

Thesaurus: rising, advancing, ongoing, growing, developing, escalating, increasing, intensifying, dynamic, accelerating, continuing; Antonym: stagnant.
3. Said of a disease: continuously increasing in severity or complication.
4. Said of a dance or game: involving changes of partner at intervals.
5. Said of taxation: increasing as the sum taxed increases.
6. grammar.
Said of a verbal aspect or tense: expressing continuing action or a continuing state, formed in English with be and the present participle, as in I am doing it and they will be going. Also called continuous. Compare perfect

noun

1. Someone with progressive ideas.
2a. grammar.
The progressive aspect or tense;
2b. grammar.
A verb in a progressive aspect or tense.

Derivative: progressively
adverb

Derivative: progressiveness
noun

Derivative: progressivism
noun

Derivative: progressivist
noun, adj