Progressive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROGRESSIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who favours progress or reform
• an advocate of social reform
• a progressive tense or aspect
• each of a set of proofs of colour work, showing all the colours separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them.
• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
ADJECTIVE:
• showing progress
• happening or developing gradually or in stages
• (of a medical condition) increasing in severity
• (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases
• (of a person or idea) favouring social reform
• favouring change or innovation
• relating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1970s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions
• 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.
• Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
• Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
• favoring or promoting progress
• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
• gradually advancing in extent
• (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
• advancing in severity
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of, relating to, or characterized by progress; making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities; of, relating to, or constituting an educational theory marked by emphasis on the individual child, informality of classroom procedure, and encouragement of self-expression

Words related to PROGRESSIVE

progressively22 progressiveness21 progressives18 progressivism21 progressivist19 progressivists20

Words that contain PROGRESSIVE

progressives18 progressively22 unprogressive19 nonprogressive20 unprogressives20 antiprogressive21 progressiveness21 unprogressively24 nonprogressives21 ultraprogressive22 progressivenesses23 ultraprogressives23

How to use PROGRESSIVE in a sentence

• He is one of the ablest and one of the most progressive of the native princes.
• Progressive series of piano lessons, senior course, lessons 82-90, section ten, supplement to section ten, and examination on section ten.
• By another irony, two of the few progressive measures ever encouraged by Abdul Hamid contributed to his undoing.
• A good illustration of the progressive nature of theology is found in the doctrine of the atonement.
• Apparently the confidence of progress has been as great in times that now seem to us decadent as in times that we think of as truly progressive.
• The latter individual variation shows a progressive increase in intensity throughout the series.
• The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
• But the only real reason for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow worse.
• I know it will be said that Japan has become progressive.
• The higher kind of interest is direct, intrinsic, not simply receptive, but active and progressive.
• Just as he advances by progressive stages from the mere physical world of being into the intellectual realm, so must he develop upward in moral attributes and spiritual graces.
• In the most progressive districts of all, I daresay, the very sowing of the grain is done by means of some engine, with better results than could be got by hand.
• He was a carefully educated scholar and progressive in his ideas, but he relied upon quiet labor and carefully prepared arguments.
• We consider such mill-owners very progressive and speak of them with keenest approval.
• The present age is an age of progress and on the whole the world is more progressive and more enlightened than it has ever been before.
• Ever we see a continual and progressive triumph of the right.
• The institutions and manners of progressive civilization are what they are because in the heart of that civilization has lain the Bible.
• This is the relation of the more advanced and powerful nations of the West towards the weaker and less progressive peoples.
• This great, this progressive party, having taken the initiative step, will never go back on its record.
• In Mark the life of Jesus follows a progressive development.

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