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progressive |
Grep of noun progressive future progressive future progressive tense past progressive past progressive tense present progressive present progressive tense progressive progressive aspect progressive party progressive rock progressive tax progressive tense progressiveness Overview of noun progressive The noun progressive has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense -- (a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going) 2. liberal, progressive -- (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties) Overview of adj progressive The adj progressive has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (3) progressive -- (favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools") 2. (3) progressive, reformist -- (favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)) 3. progressive -- ((of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases) 4. progressive -- (gradually advancing in extent) 5. progressive -- (advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis") Antonyms of adj progressive 5 senses of progressive Sense 1 progressive (vs. regressive) regressive (vs. progressive) => atavistic, throwback(postnominal) => declining, deteriorating, failing, regressing, retrograde, retrogressive => returning, reverting => unmodernized, unmodernised Sense 2 progressive, reformist INDIRECT (VIA liberal) -> conservative Sense 3 progressive (vs. regressive) regressive (vs. progressive) => flat, fixed => graduated Sense 4 progressive INDIRECT (VIA increasing) -> decreasing Sense 5 progressive INDIRECT (VIA active) -> inactive Similarity of adj progressive 5 senses of progressive Sense 1 progressive (vs. regressive) => advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern => advancing, forward, forward-moving => incremental => modernized, modernised => state-of-the-art Also See-> forward#1; industrial#2 Sense 2 progressive, reformist => liberal (vs. conservative) Sense 3 progressive (vs. regressive) => degressive => graduated, proportional Sense 4 progressive => increasing (vs. decreasing) Sense 5 progressive => active (vs. inactive) Attributes of adj progressive Familiarity of adj progressive progressive used as an adjective is common (polysemy count = 5) Grep of adj progressive nonprogressive progressive unprogressive Overview of noun progressive The noun progressive has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense -- (a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going) 2. liberal, progressive -- (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties) Overview of adj progressive The adj progressive has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (3) progressive -- (favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools") 2. (3) progressive, reformist -- (favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)) 3. progressive -- ((of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases) 4. progressive -- (gradually advancing in extent) 5. progressive -- (advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis")
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