progressive 音标拼音: [prəgr'ɛsɪv]
a .
进步的,先进的;向前进的;渐进的,累进的;进行性的;进行的
n . 进步分子
进步的,先进的;向前进的;渐进的,累进的;进行性的;进行的进步分子
progressive adj 1 :
favoring or promoting progress ; "
progressive schools "
[
ant : {
regressive }]
2 :
favoring or promoting reform (
often by government action )
[
synonym : {
progressive }, {
reformist }, {
reform -
minded }]
3 : (
of taxes )
adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases [
ant : {
regressive }]
4 :
gradually advancing in extent 5 : (
of a card game or a dance )
involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position ; "
progressive euchre "; "
progressive tournaments "
6 :
advancing in severity ; "
progressive paralysis "
n 1 :
a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on -
going [
synonym : {
progressive }, {
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 [
synonym : {
liberal },
{
liberalist }, {
progressive }] [
ant : {
conservative },
{
conservativist }]
Progressive \
Pro *
gress "
ive \,
a . [
Cf .
F .
progressif .]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
Moving forward ;
proceeding onward ;
advancing ;
evincing progress ;
increasing ;
as ,
progressive motion or course ; --
opposed to {
retrograde }.
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Improving ;
as ,
art is in a progressive state .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 . (
U .
S .
History )
Of or pertaining to the Progressive party .
[
Webster 1913 Suppl .]
4 .
Favoring improvement ,
change ,
progress ,
or reform ,
especially in a political context ; --
used of people .
Contrasted with {
conservative }.
[
PJC ]
Note :
The term progressive is sometimes used to describe the views of a politician ,
where {
liberal }
might have been used at one time ,
in communities where the term liberal has come to connote extreme views .
[
PJC ]
5 .
Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or education ,
holding tolerant and liberal ideas ,
and generally favoring improvement in civic life ; --
of towns and communities .
[
PJC ]
{
Progressive euchre }
or {
Progressive 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 .
[
1913 Webster ] -- {
Pro *
gress "
ive *
ly },
adv . --
{
Pro *
gress "
ive *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "
progressive ":
Fabian ,
a la mode ,
advanced ,
advancing ,
ameliorative ,
ascending ,
avant -
garde ,
axial ,
back ,
back -
flowing ,
backward ,
bettering ,
catenary ,
consecutive ,
contemporary ,
continuing ,
continuous ,
descending ,
developing ,
down -
trending ,
downward ,
drifting ,
dynamic ,
extremist ,
far out ,
fashionable ,
flowing ,
fluent ,
flying ,
forward ,
forward -
looking ,
go -
ahead ,
going ,
gradual ,
growing ,
gyrational ,
gyratory ,
improving ,
in ,
increasing ,
left ,
left of center ,
left -
wing ,
left -
winger ,
leftist ,
liberal ,
liberalist ,
liberalistic ,
lineal ,
linear ,
looking up ,
meliorative ,
meliorist ,
mending ,
mod ,
modern ,
modernistic ,
modernized ,
modish ,
mounting ,
moving ,
newfashioned ,
now ,
on the left ,
on the lift ,
on the mend ,
oncoming ,
ongoing ,
onward ,
ordinal ,
passing ,
plunging ,
present -
day ,
present -
time ,
proceeding ,
progressing ,
progressionist ,
progressist ,
progressivist ,
progressivistic ,
radical ,
reflowing ,
refluent ,
reformer ,
reformist ,
regressive ,
retrogressive ,
revisionist ,
revolutionary ,
rising ,
rotary ,
rotational ,
rotatory ,
running ,
rushing ,
sequent ,
sequential ,
serial ,
seriate ,
sideward ,
sinking ,
soaring ,
step by step ,
streaming ,
streamlined ,
successional ,
successive ,
twentieth -
century ,
ultra -
ultra ,
ultramodern ,
up -
to -
date ,
up -
to -
datish ,
up -
to -
the -
minute ,
up -
trending ,
upward ,
utopian ,
utopist ,
way out ,
welfare stater
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