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progressive

English

  1. 🔊 advancing in severity
    “progressive paralysis”
  2. 🔊 favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
  3. 🔊 (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
    “progressive euchre”
  4. 🔊 favoring or promoting progress
    “progressive schools”
  5. 🔊 (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
  6. 🔊 gradually advancing in extent
  7. 🔊 a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
  8. 🔊 a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Spanish

  1. 🔊 progresivo progressive
  2. 🔊 progresista progressive, progressist, progressionist
  3. 🔊 progresista progressive, progressist, progressionist (person)

Similar words

liberal liberalist progressive tense imperfect imperfect tense continuous tense reformist reform-minded fabian a la mode advanced advancing ameliorative ascending avant-garde axial back back-flowing backward bettering catenary consecutive contemporary continuing