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progressively |
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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