progressive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: progressive	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for progressive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
progressive adj favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools" Antonym(s): regressive favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) Synonym(s): progressive, reformist, reform-minded (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases Antonym(s): regressive gradually advancing in extent (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" advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis" n a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going Synonym(s): progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties Synonym(s): liberal, liberalist, progressive Antonym(s): conservative, conservativist
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Producer's rent \Producer's rent\ Progressive \Progress"ive\, a. (U. S. Politics) Of or pertaining to the Progressive* party.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Progressive \Progress"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. -- {Progress"ively}, adv. -- {Progress"iveness}, n.