Word Meanings - PROGRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing

Additional info about word: PROGRESSIVE

1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy , a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. -- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROGRESSIVE)

• Forward
• Advanced
• ready
• eager
• anxious
• obtrusive
• self-assertive
• impertinent
• progressive
• onward
• confident
• bold
• presumptuous
• Gradual
• Slow
• continuous
• unintermittent
• gradational
• regular
• step by step

Related words: (words related to PROGRESSIVE)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• CONFIDENT
  See DRYDEN
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being presumptuous.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• GRADUAL
  Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
• CONTINUOUSLY
  In a continuous maner; without interruption. -- Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n.
• ADVANCING EDGE
  The front edge of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.
• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres
• FORWARDLY
  Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• ANXIOUSNESS
  The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
• CONFIDENTIAL
  1. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk. 2. Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke. Confidential communication See Privileged communication,
• FORWARD
  An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.
• ONWARDS
  Onward.
• FORWARDNESS
  The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson. 3.
• GRADUALITY
  The state of being gradual; gradualness. Sir T. Browne.
• GRADATIONAL
  By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
• CONFIDENTNESS
  The quality of being confident.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• SELF-CONFIDENT
  Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant. -- Self`-con"fi*dent*ly, adv.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• OVERFORWARD
  Forward to excess; too forward. -- O"ver*for"ward*ness, n.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used