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progressive |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Producer's rent \Producer's rent\ Progressive \Pro*gress"ive\, a. (U. S. Politics) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party. 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]: progressive adj 1: favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools" [ant: {regressive}] 2: favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) [syn: {reformist}] 3: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases [ant: {regressive}] 4: gradually advancing in extent 5: of illness; marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function; "degenerative diseases of old age" [syn: {degenerative}] 6: advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis" n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going [syn: {progressive tense}, {imperfect}, {imperfect tense}, {continuous tense}] 2: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: {liberal}] [ant: {conservative}]
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