progressive

Dictionary: pro·gres·sive (prə-grĕs'ĭv) pronunciation

adj.

Moving forward; advancing.
Proceeding in steps; continuing steadily by increments: progressive change.
Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods: a progressive politician; progressive business leadership.
Progressive Of or relating to a Progressive Party: the Progressive platform of 1924.
Of or relating to progressive education: a progressive school.
Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases: a progressive income tax.
Pathology. Tending to become more severe or wider in scope: progressive paralysis.
Grammar. Designating a verb form that expresses an action or condition in progress.

A person who actively favors or strives for progress toward better conditions, as in society or government.
Progressive A member or supporter of a Progressive Party.
Grammar. A progressive verb form.

progressively pro·gres'sive·ly adv.
progressiveness pro·gres'sive·ness n.

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adjective

Ahead of current trends or customs: advanced, forward, precocious. See precede/follow.
Not narrow or conservative in thought, expression, or conduct: broad, broad-minded, liberal, open-minded, tolerant. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, wide/narrow.
Favoring civil liberties and social progress: liberal, liberalistic. See politics.

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liberal

liberalist

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adj

Definition: liberal, growing
Antonyms: conservative, moderate

Veterinary Dictionary: progressive

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Advancing, increasing in scope and severity.

p. ethmoid hematoma — see progressive nasal hematoma (below).
p. interstitial pneumonia in sheep — see maedi.
p. motor neuron disease — various forms of these diseases, all characterized by progressive paresis, paralysis and local muscle atrophy, progressive muscular dystrophy, are recorded in dogs (Brittany spaniel, Rottweiler, Swedish Lapland), horses, Brown Swiss calves, pigs (Yorkshire, Hampshire).
p. nasal hematoma — a disease of horses characterized by epistaxis and nasal obstruction. The large hemorrhagic mass originates from the ethmoid region and has a high rate of recurrence after surgery. Called also hemorrhagic nasal polyp, progressive ethmoidal hematoma.
p. posterior paralysis — see progressive ataxia.

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IN BRIEF: n. - Characterized by going forward or onward.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant

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Look up progressive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Progressive is an adjectival form of progress and may refer to:

1 Politics
2 Business
3 Music
4 Religion
5 Sports
6 Technology
7 Other fields
8 See also

Politics

Progressivism, a political movement/ideology with origins in early 20th century America
Progressive Era, period of reform in the United States lasting from the 1890s through the 1920s
Progressive Party, name of several different active and inactive political parties across the world
Progressive tax, tax imposed so that the tax rate increases as the amount to which the rate is applied increases
The Progressive, left-wing monthly magazine

Business

Progressive Corporation, auto insurance company in the United States
Progressive Enterprises, New Zealand retail cooperative

Music

Progressive music, approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres
- Progressive rock, subgenre of rock music arising in the late 1960s
- Progressive metal, genre of heavy metal music sharing traits with progressive rock
Progressive country, subgenre of country music started in the late 60s which preceded and led to Outlaw country
Progressive electronic music, collection of electronic dance music genres drawing upon the use of progressive performing techniques
Progressive psytrance, style of trance music developed in the early 2000s
Progressive rock (radio format), radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s
Progressive (album), a demo released by the German symphonic metal band Haggard in 1994

Religion

Progressive creationism, form of Old Earth creationism that accepts that new species have appeared successively over Earth's long history
Progressive Judaism, umbrella term for all strands of Judaism which do not view halakha as having normative status
Progressive revelation (Bahá'í), a core teaching of Bahá'í that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time.
Progressive revelation (Christian), the concept that the sections of the Bible that were written later contain a fuller revelation of God compared to the earlier sections.
Progressive Christianity, a movement within contemporary Protestantism characterized by willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity, and strong emphasis on social justice
Progressive Islam, a modern liberal interpretation of Islam

Sports

Progressive Field (originally Jacobs Field), home of the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball

Technology

Progressive disclosure, interaction design technique often used in human computer interaction
Progressive scan, form of video transmission which is frame-based instead of field-based

Other fields

Progressive illness, an illness that gradually progresses, generally to the worse.
Progressive aspect, grammatical aspect that expresses incomplete action in progress at a specific time
Progressive chess, chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves
Progressive education, which emphasizes a "hands-on" approach to learning.
Progressive function, function in mathematics
Progressive jackpot, jackpot for a gaming machine where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played
Progressive lenses, corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation
Progressive shifting, technique for changing gears commonly practiced by drivers of semi-trailer trucks
Progressive stamping, metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, and bending metal raw material

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