progressive

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• IPA ^(key): /prəˈɡrɛsɪv/

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Adjective

Positive progressive

Comparative more progressive

Superlative most progressive

1. Something that is progressive has to do with progress.
2. In politics, someone who is progressive wants to make things better through new laws and methods.

   It's a victory for feminism and progressive politics.

3. A progressive tax is a tax that makes the rich pay a much higher amount of their money than the poor.
4. (grammar) The progressive aspect is made with a form of the verb "be" and a verb with an "-ing" at the end.

   The present progressive of "I go" is "I am going" and the past progressive of "I walk" is "I was walking".

5. If a disease is progressive, it begins slowly and gets worse over time.

Related words

• progress