Found 3 items, similar to progressive.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: progressive
progresif
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: progressive
progressive
adj 1: favoring or promoting progress;
“progressive schools” [ant:
regressive]
2: favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
[syn:
reformist,
reform-minded]
3: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount
increases [ant:
regressive]
4: gradually advancing in extent
5: advancing in severity;
“progressive paralysis”
progressive
n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
[syn:
progressive tense,
imperfect,
imperfect tense,
continuous tense]
2: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and
reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn:
liberal]
[ant:
conservative]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Progressive
Progressive
\Pro*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. progressif.]
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1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing
progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; --
opposed to
retrograde.
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2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
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3. (U. S. History) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. Favoring improvement, change, progress, or reform,
especially in a political context; -- used of people.
Contrasted with
conservative.
[PJC]
Note: The term progressive is sometimes used to describe the
views of a politician, where
liberal might have been
used at one time, in communities where the term liberal
has come to connote extreme views.
[PJC]
5. Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or
education, holding tolerant and liberal ideas, and
generally favoring improvement in civic life; -- of towns
and communities.
[PJC]
Progressive euchre or
Progressive whist, a way of playing
at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at
the first table go to the last table, and the winners at
all the tables, except the first, move up to the next
table.
Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder
characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles.
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Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. --
Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.
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