Progressive - English meaning

verb

(especially of a vehicle) begin to move more quickly.

Usage examples:

The car accelerated towards her

adjective

Becoming faster

Usage examples:

Arctic ocean ice is shrinking at an accelerating rate., with greater global mobility of people and …

adjective

Without a break in continuity; ongoing.

Usage examples:

A continuing controversy

verb

Persist in an activity or process.

Usage examples:

He was unable to continue with his job

adjective

Happening or existing without stopping

Usage examples:

You can visit our website to watch continuing coverage of the tournament., her article points out t…

adjective

Forming an unbroken whole; without interruption.

Usage examples:

The whole performance is enacted in one continuous movement

adjective

Without a pause or break

Usage examples:

A continuous line of traffic, he spoke continuously for more than two hours.

adjective

Without a pause or interruption

Usage examples:

She is in continuous pain., my computer makes a continuous low buzzing noise., a continuous whiteli…

adjective

Increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions.

Usage examples:

The cumulative effect of two years of drought

adjective

Increasing as each new amount is added or as each new fact or condition is considered

Usage examples:

No single development is causing the company’s financial trouble – it’s the cumulative effect of ye…

adjective

Increasing by one addition after another, and including all the amounts that have been added before

Usage examples:

The cumulative effect of using so many chemicals on the land could be disastrous., the company esti…

adjective

Growing and becoming more mature, advanced, or elaborate.

Usage examples:

This is a rapidly developing field

verb

Grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.

Usage examples:

Motion pictures were to develop into mass entertainment

adjective

Growing or becoming stronger or more advanced

Usage examples:

A developing fetus

adjective

Increasing rapidly.

Usage examples:

The escalating cost of healthcare

verb

Increase rapidly.

Usage examples:

The price of tickets escalated

adjective

Increasing in price, amount, rate, etc.

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Escalating costs/prices/rates

adjective

Taking place or progressing slowly or by degrees.

Usage examples:

The gradual introduction of new methods

noun

(in the western christian church) a response sung or recited between the epistle and gospel in the mass.

Usage examples:

The chants set were vespers responsories, mass graduals, and alleluias, and perhaps some procession…

adjective

Changing or developing slowly or by small degrees

Usage examples:

He has suffered a gradual decline in health over the past year., sales of the product are improving…

adjective

(of a living thing) undergoing natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.

Usage examples:

The needs of the growing child

verb

(of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically.

Usage examples:

He would watch nick grow to manhood

adjective

Increasing in size or amount

Usage examples:

There is a growing awareness of the seriousness of this disease.

adjective

Becoming greater in size, amount, or degree; growing.

Usage examples:

The increasing numbers of students

verb

Become or make greater in size, amount, or degree.

Usage examples:

Car use is increasing at an alarming rate

noun

A person who introduces new methods, ideas, or products.

Usage examples:

He was one of the great innovators in jazz

noun

A person who develops a new design, product, etc. or who has new ideas about how to do something

Usage examples:

The uk needs a new generation of innovators in the public sector to deliver better value for taxpay…

verb

Become or make more intense.

Usage examples:

The dispute began to intensify

verb

Present participle of intensify

Usage examples:

Fighting around the capital has intensified in the last few hours.

noun

A person who supports the political left

noun

A person with left-wing political views.

Usage examples:

These values are shared by many leftists

adjective

Having or relating to left-wing political views.

Usage examples:

Leftist rebels

noun

A supporter of the political left

Usage examples:

Rightists revered him; leftists reviled him., in her view, he was significantly more of a leftist t…

adjective

Willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.

Usage examples:

They have liberal views on divorce

noun

A supporter of policies that are socially progressive and promote social welfare.

Usage examples:

Are we dealing with a polarization between liberals and conservatives?

adjective

Allowing many different types of beliefs or behavior

Usage examples:

A liberal society/person, a liberal policy/position, some merchants offer very liberal return polic…

noun

An advocate or supporter of a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market and the private lives of citizens.

Usage examples:

No true libertarian would ever support a culture where citizens must show their papers to travel

adjective

Relating to or denoting a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market and the private lives of citizens.

Usage examples:

He holds libertarian views on most social issues

noun

Someone who believes that people should have complete freedom of thought and action

adjective

New or modern; recent.

Usage examples:

Another effort by the white house to display its neoteric wizardry went awry

noun

A modern person; a person who advocates new ideas.

Usage examples:

A whole group of young poets, the so-called ‘neoterics’, shared the same rejection of traditional n…

adjective

Continuing; still in progress.

Usage examples:

Ongoing negotiations

adjective

Continuing to exist, happen, or develop

Usage examples:

The investigation is ongoing.

noun

A supporter of the theory that all life forms gradually evolve to a higher form.

adjective

Supporting or relating to the theory that all life forms evolve to a higher form.

Usage examples:

Progressionist evolutionists

noun

A person who makes changes to something in order to improve it.

Usage examples:

A radical social reformer

noun

A person who works for political, social, or religious change

noun

Someone who plans or supports changes to a system, law, organization, etc. in order to make it more modern or effective

Usage examples:

Political/economic reformer he is known worldwide as an economic reformer who forged a landmark fre…

adjective

Supporting or advancing gradual reform rather than abolition or revolution.

Usage examples:

The reformist policies of the government

noun

A person who advocates gradual reform rather than abolition or revolution.

Usage examples:

Ireland's environmental reformists, the green party, have played a shameful role during the campaign.

adjective

Trying to improve a system or law by changing it

Usage examples:

A reformist, rather than a revolutionary approach to progress, a reformist politician

idiom

In a gradual manner

phrase

So as to progress gradually and carefully from one stage to the next.

Usage examples:

I'll explain it to you step by step

adjective

One at a time in a particular order

Usage examples:

A step-by-step guide to installing the software, she followed the instructions step-by-step.