progressive
adjective
[ prəˈɡrɛsɪv ]
• happening or developing gradually or in stages.
• "a progressive decline in popularity"
Similar:
continuing,
continuous,
increasing,
growing,
developing,
ongoing,
intensifying,
accelerating,
escalating,
gradual,
step by step,
cumulative,
• (of a person or idea) favouring social reform.
• "a relatively progressive Minister of Education"
• denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing.
• (of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position.
• engaging in or constituting forward motion.
progressive
noun
• an advocate of social reform.
• "people tend to present themselves either as progressives or traditionalists on this issue"
Similar:
innovator,
reformer,
reformist,
liberal,
libertarian,
progressivist,
progressionist,
leftist,
left-winger,
neoteric,
• a progressive tense or aspect.
• "the present progressive"
• each of a set of proofs of colour work, showing all the colours separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them.
Origin:
early 17th century: from French progressif, -ive or medieval Latin progressivus, from progress- ‘gone forward’, from the verb progredi (see progress).
