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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pro•gres•sive /prəˈgrɛsɪv/USA pronunciation adj. - Governmentcalling for or favoring progress, reform, or new methods and outlooks, esp. in political and social matters.
- passing from one stage to the next:progressive increases in computer power.
- Medicinecontinuously increasing in extent or severity:a progressive worsening of the disease.
- increasing in rate as taxable income increases:a progressive tax.
- Grammarof or being a verb tense or form used to indicate that an action or event is, was, or will be going on at some period of time: Progressive verb tenses end in -ing and are preceded by a form of the verb to be:I have been working, I am working, and I will be working.
n. [countable] - Governmenta person who favors progress or reform, as in politics.
- a verb form or construction in the progressive tense or aspect, as am listening or was sleeping.
pro•gres•sive•ly, adv. See -gress-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pro•gres•sive (prə gres′iv),USA pronunciation adj. - Governmentfavoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, esp. in political matters:a progressive mayor.
- making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.:a progressive community.
- characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.
- Government(cap.) of or pertaining to any of the Progressive parties in politics.
- going forward or onward;
passing successively from one member of a series to the next;
proceeding step by step. - noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.
- of or pertaining to progressive education:progressive schools.
- Grammarnoting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference.
- Medicinecontinuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.
n. - Governmenta person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, esp. in political matters.
- Government(cap.) a member of a Progressive party.
- Grammar
- the progressive aspect.
- a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it.
pro•gres′sive•ly, adv. pro•gres′sive•ness, pro•gres•siv•i•ty (prō′gre siv′i tē),USA pronunciation n. - 1, 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged liberal.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged successive.
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