progressive
//pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv//
Forms
- Comparative
- more progressive
- Superlative
- most progressive
- Plural
- progressives
Definitions
1.Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
2.Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
3.Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
4.Liberal.
- Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday called for “action, not words” from Democrats, criticizing the approach of some in the progressive wing of the party.
1.A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
2.One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.
3.A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
4.Clipping of progressive dinner
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3611
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus.
Displaced native Old English forþgenġe.
By surface analysis, progress + -ive.