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PROGRESSIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Synonyms:
liberal; liberalist; progressive
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("progressive" is a kind of...):
adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progressive"):
armchair liberal (a person of liberal ideals who takes no action to realize them)
latitudinarian (a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct))
neoliberal (a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism)
pluralist (someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society)
Whig (a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories)
Derivation:
progressive (favoring or promoting reform (often by government action))
progressive (favoring or promoting progress)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
Synonyms:
continuous tense; imperfect; imperfect tense; progressive; progressive tense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("progressive" is a kind of...):
tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progressive"):
present progressive; present progressive tense (a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance)
past progressive; past progressive tense (a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past)
future progressive; future progressive tense (a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Advancing in severity
Example:
progressive paralysis
Classified under:
Similar:
active (tending to become more severe or wider in scope)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
Synonyms:
progressive; reform-minded; reformist
Classified under:
Similar:
liberal (tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition)
Domain category:
administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)
Derivation:
progressive (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties)
progressiveness; progressivity (advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
Example:
progressive tournaments
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
ordered (having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Favoring or promoting progress
Example:
progressive schools
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
advanced; forward-looking; innovative; modern (ahead of the times)
advancing; forward; forward-moving (moving forward)
modernised; modernized (brought up to date)
state-of-the-art (the highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time))
Also:
forward (at or near or directed toward the front)
industrial (having highly developed industries)
Antonym:
regressive (opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state)
Derivation:
progressive (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties)
progressiveness (advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
degressive ((of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount)
Domain category:
revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)
Antonym:
regressive ((of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Gradually advancing in extent
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
increasing (becoming greater or larger)
Context examples:
The tumor also tends to spread throughout the neuroaxis and is often rapidly progressive.
(Adult Spinal Cord Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Patients who had four or more rimmed lesions were 1.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with progressive MS than those without rimmed lesions.
(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)
They note also that the fact that the decline was seen as progressive over time is a strong indicator of air pollution being the cause, rather than other sources.
(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that damages healthy brain cells.
(Alzheimer’s protein may have natural antibiotic role, NIH)
Clinical course usually follows a progressive neurologic deterioration which stabilizes at a level of severe, permanent disability.
(Paraneoplastic Subacute Sensory Neuronopathy, NCI Thesaurus)
Very strong and progressive government regulation would be necessary to achieve the proposed transformations.
(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)
Abnormal tissue that results from the progressive accumulation or deposit of certain substances in a body cavity, surface, or lumen.
(Plaque, NCI Thesaurus)
I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A cardiac rhythm characterized by progressive PR prolongation and shortening of RR interval until P wave is blocked.
(Mobitz I, NCI Thesaurus)
Most patients present with slowly progressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
(Mu Heavy Chain Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
