- progressive - favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools"
Antonyms: regressive, atavistic, throwback, retrograde, retrogressive, returning, reverting, unmodernized, unmodernised
- progressive, reformist, reform-minded - favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
Antonym: conservative (indirect, via liberal)
- progressive - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases
Antonyms: regressive, flat, fixed, graduated
- progressive - gradually advancing in extent
Antonym: decreasing (indirect, via increasing)
- progressive - advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis"
Antonym: inactive (indirect, via active)
- progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
--1 is a kind of tense
--1 has particulars:present progressive, present progressive tense; past progressive, past progressive tense; future progressive, future progressive tense - liberal, progressive - a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
--2 is a kind of adult, grownup
--2 has particulars:armchair liberal; latitudinarian; neoliberal; pluralist; Whig