Definitions:

1. (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position adjective
   • progressive euchre
2. advancing in severity adjective
   • progressive paralysis
3. favoring or promoting progress adjective
   • progressive schools
4. of taxes, adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases adjective
   • The legislator believed that progressive taxation was the fairest way to distribute the costs of society.

Synonyms:

• continuous tense
• imperfect
• imperfect tense
• liberal
• liberalist
• progressive tense
• reform-minded
• reformist

NearBy Words:

• progressively
• progressiveness