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| 1. | [ adjective ] (politics) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | |
| Synonyms: | reformist | |
| Related terms: | liberal | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | |
| Synonyms: | reformist reform-minded | |
| Related terms: | government liberal | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] favoring or promoting progress | |
| Examples: | "progressive schools" |
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| Related terms: | regressive advanced advancing modernized modernised state-of-the-art incremental forward industrial | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] of illness; marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | |
| Synonyms: | degenerative | |
| Examples: | "degenerative diseases of old age" |
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| Related terms: | chronic | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | |
| Synonyms: | imperfect imperfect_tense continuous_tense progressive_tense | |
| Related terms: | tense future_progressive past_progressive present_progressive | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases | |
| Related terms: | regressive tax graduated degressive | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] gradually advancing in extent | |
| Related terms: | increasing | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] advancing in severity | |
| Examples: | "progressive paralysis" |
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| Related terms: | active | |
| 9. | [ noun ] (politics) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | |
| Synonyms: | liberal | |
| Related terms: | conservative adult Whig pluralist armchair_liberal neoliberal latitudinarian | |
| Similar spelling: |
progressively progress progressivity progressivism progression progress_to procreative pressure procuress Presgraves programme pressurize pressurise |
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