progressive

Adjective
  1. Favoring or promoting progress (synset 301882105)
    "progressive schools"
    also:
    • forward - at or near or directed toward the front
    • industrial - having highly developed industries
    similar to:
  2. Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) (synset 300578540)
    referred to in: administration, governance, governing, government, government activity - the act of governing; exercising authority
    similar to: liberal - tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
    same as: reform-minded, reformist
  3. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases (synset 301883716)
    referred to in: revenue enhancement, tax, taxation - charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
    similar to: degressive - (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount
  4. Gradually advancing in extent (synset 302546990)
    similar to: increasing - becoming greater or larger
  5. (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position (synset 301672264)
    "progressive euchre"; "progressive tournaments"
    similar to: ordered - having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule
  6. Advancing in severity (synset 300037766)
    "progressive paralysis"
    similar to: active - tending to become more severe or wider in scope
Noun
  1. A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going (synset 113827946)
    is a type of: tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
    subtypes:
    same as: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense
  2. A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties (synset 110276453)
    is a type of: adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward
    subtypes:
    • armchair liberal - a person of liberal ideals who takes no action to realize them
    • latitudinarian - a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
    • neoliberal - a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism
    • pluralist - someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
    • whig - a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
    same as: liberal, liberalist

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