Meaning

8 senses
  1. Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.

    favoring or promoting progress

  2. Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.

    gradually advancing in extent

  3. Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.

    a progressive politician

    progressive business leadership

    favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

  4. Liberal.

  5. Of or relating to progressive education.

    a progressive school

  6. Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.

    (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

  7. Advancing in severity.

    progressive paralysis

    advancing in severity

  8. Continuous.

Examples

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  1. I'm pretty progressive.

    Я доволі прогресивний.

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  2. Tom is very progressive, isn't he?

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  3. Income tax is progressive.

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  4. Tom wears progressive lenses.

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  5. Mary is very progressive, isn't she?

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Origin

From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect p

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.

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