Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PROGRESSIVE

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Definitions of PROGRESSIVE

1. Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
2. Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
3. Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.
4. Advancing in severity.
5. A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
6. Belonging to or supporting a Progressive Party.
7. Of or pertaining to such a party, its policies, or its membership.
8. A member or supporter of a Progressive Party.
9. (politics) Liberal.
10. (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
11. (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
12. (grammar) Continuous.
13. (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.

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Examples of Using PROGRESSIVE in a Sentence

• An assembly line, often called progressive assembly, is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed.
• His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, expressed support for progressive taxation and an estate tax, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.
• Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, progressive house and techno started by John Digweed.
• Bodybuilding is the practice of progressive resistance exercise to build, control, and develop one's muscles via hypertrophy.
• Since , the team has played its home games at Progressive Field (originally known as Jacobs Field after the team's then-owner).
• Mingus's work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize ensembles to pioneering the post-bop style on seminal recordings like Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) and Mingus Ah Um (1959) and progressive big band experiments such as The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963).
• Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) is a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation across various parts of the body.
• The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC).
• In the 19th century, it was used to describe the belief that organisms deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change (orthogenesis).
• Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present.
• To date the longest-serving leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis.
• Since their formation in November 1969, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and have incorporated many different styles into their music, including hard rock, progressive rock and psychedelic rock.
• The disease is characterized by slowly progressive weakness and wasting of both proximal muscles (located on or close to the torso) and distal muscles (close to hands or feet), most apparent in the finger flexors and knee extensors.
• He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with a majority of the seats in the House of Commons.
• Peel was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio.
• They exerted a strong influence on the early 1970s progressive rock movement, including on contemporaries such as Yes and Genesis, and continue to inspire subsequent generations of artists across multiple genres.
• The party system is dominated by the conservative Progressive Citizens' Party and the liberal-conservative Patriotic Union.
• Many Labour parties are also members of the Socialist International or participants in the Progressive Alliance.
• Muscular dystrophies (MD) are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare neuromuscular diseases that cause progressive weakness and breakdown of skeletal muscles over time.
• Progressive realism, an American foreign policy paradigm focused on producing measurable results in pursuit of widely supported goals.

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