progressive

About 21.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
2. adjective Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
3. adjective Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.

   a progressive politician

4. adjective Liberal.
5. adjective Of or relating to progressive education.

   a progressive school

6. adjective Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
7. adjective Advancing in severity.

   progressive paralysis

8. adjective Continuous.

Similar words

reformist liberal graduated modern advanced innovative progressive tense active continuous tense imperfect tense

Often followed by

and party era development movement education increase in forces

Word family

Progressive Progressives progressively progressiveness progressivenesses progressives