| 单词 | progressive |
| 释义 | progressive —progressively, adv. —progressiveness, progressivity /proh'gre siv"i tee/, n. /preuh gres"iv/, adj. 1. favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, esp. in political matters: a progressive mayor. 2. making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community. 3. characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement. 4. (cap.) of or pertaining to any of the Progressive parties in politics. 5. going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step. 6. noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income. 7. of or pertaining to progressive education: progressive schools. 8. Gram. noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference. 9. Med. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease. n. 10. a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, esp. in political matters. 11. (cap.) a member of a Progressive party. 12. Gram. a. the progressive aspect. b. a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it. [1600-10; PROGRESS + -IVE] Syn. 1, 9. liberal. 5. successive. |
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