favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, esp. in political matters

a progressive mayor.

making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.

a progressive community.

characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.

( initial capital letter ) of or pertaining to any of the Progressive parties in politics.

going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.

noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.

of or pertaining to progressive education

progressive schools.

Grammar . noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference.

Medicine/Medical . continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.

a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, esp. in political matters.

( initial capital letter ) a member of a Progressive party.

Grammar .

the progressive aspect.

a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it.

adjective

conservative , moderate

adjective

accelerating , advanced , advancing , avant-garde * , bleeding-heart , broad , broad-minded , continuing , continuous , developing , dynamic , enlightened , enterprising , escalating , forward-looking , go-ahead * , gradual , graduated , increasing , intensifying , left * , left of center , lenient , modern , ongoing , onward , open-minded , radical , reformist , revolutionary , tolerant , up-and-coming * , up-to-date , wide , forward , precocious , liberal , liberalistic , active , growing , rising

noun

liberalist