2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Progressive \Pro*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. progressif.]
1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing
progress; increasing; as progressive motion or course; --
opposed to retrograde.
2. Improving; as art is in a progressive state.
{Progressive euchre} or {whist}, a way of playing at card
parties, by which after every game, the losers at the
first table go to the last table, and the winners at all
the tables, except the first move up to the next table.
{Progressive muscular atrophy} (Med.), a nervous disorder
characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. --
{Pro*gress"ive*ly}, adv -- {Pro*gress"ive*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
progressively
adv : advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly
depressed" [syn: {increasingly}, {more and more}]
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