Synonyms for progressive
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In mounting sequence
advancing, mounting, rising, increasing, growing, continuous, successive, following, adding, multiplying, consecutive, gradual, serial, unbroken, uninterrupted, endless, regular, methodical, uniform; see also moving 1.
Antonyms firm*, stationary, immovable.
Receptive to new ideas
tolerant, lenient, openminded, reformist, revisionist; see also liberal 2.
See progressive in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Ahead of current trends or customs:
advanced, forward, precocious. See precedeNot narrow or conservative in thought, expression, or conduct:
broad, broad-minded, liberal, open-minded, tolerant. See attitude, wideFavoring civil liberties and social progress:
liberal, liberalistic. See politics
noun
A person with liberal political opinions:
liberal, liberalist. See politics
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