# progressive
## English
### Alternative forms

* prog. (abbreviation)
* prog (clipping)

### Etymology

From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) +‎ -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/, /pɹoʊ-/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /pɹəˈɡɹesɪv/
* Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
* Hyphenation: pro‧gress‧ive

### Adjective

progressive (comparative more progressive, superlative most progressive)
* Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
* Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
* Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
    a progressive politician
    progressive business leadership
* (politics) Liberal.
** 2016, Richard Lints, Progressive and Conservative Religious Ideologies, page i:Conservative movements were far more progressive than the standard religious narrative of the decade alleges and the notoriously progressive ethos of the era was far more conservative than our collective memory has recognized.
* (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
    a progressive school
* (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
* Advancing in severity.
    progressive paralysis
* (grammar) Continuous.

#### Antonyms

* regressive
* (antonym(s) of “advancing in severity”): non-progressive
* conservative
* reactionary

#### Derived terms

* antiprogressive
* atheroprogressive
* brogressive
* fauxgressive
* hyperprogressive
* improgressive
* neoprogressive
* neuroprogressive
* nonprogressive
* oligoprogressive
* progressive aspect
* progressive assimilation (phonology)
* progressive bluegrass
* progressive creationism
* progressive creationist
* progressive dinner
* progressive enhancement
* progressive euchre
* progressive house
* progressive infantile poliodystrophy
* progressive jazz
* progressive longways formation
* progressive love
* progressively
* progressive metal
* progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
* progressiveness
* progressive overload
* progressive rap
* progressive rock
* progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy
* progressive stack
* progressive supper
* progressive tax
* progressive tense
* progressive war
* progressive web app
* progressive web application
* progressivism
* progressivist
* progressivity
* pseudoprogressive
* technoprogressive
* ultraprogressive
* ultra-progressive
* unprogressive

#### Related terms

* progress

### Noun

progressive (plural progressives)
* One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
    The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.

#### Translations
### Noun

progressive (plural progressives)
* A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
* (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.

#### Derived terms

* future perfect progressive
* future progressive
* past perfect progressive
* past progressive
* present perfect progressive
* present progressive

#### Translations
### Noun

progressive (plural progressives)
* Clipping of progressive dinner.

### Further reading

* "progressive" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 243.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv/ ~ /pʁɔ.ɡʁe.siv/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

progressive
* feminine singular of progressif

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

progressive
* inflection of progressiv:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

## Interlingua
### Adjective

progressive (comparative plus progressive, superlative le plus progressive)
* progressive, gradually increasing, progressing

## Italian
### Adjective

progressive
* feminine plural of progressivo

## Latin
### Adjective

prōgressīve
* vocative masculine singular of prōgressīvus

## Swedish
### Adjective

progressive
* definite natural masculine singular of progressiv