Progressive Synonyms and Antonyms

prə-grĕsĭv
Ahead of current trends or customs
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. advanced
  2. forward
  3. precocious
In mounting sequence
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. advancing
  2. growing
  3. rising
  4. gradual
  5. liberal
  6. mounting
  7. broad
  8. increasing
  9. continuous
  10. successive
  11. broad-minded
  12. following
  13. active
  14. adding
  15. multiplying
  16. consecutive
  17. serial
  18. continuing
  19. unbroken
  20. uninterrupted
  21. forward
  22. endless
  23. open-minded
  24. regular
  25. methodical
  26. uniform
  27. tolerant
Antonyms:
  1. firm
  2. stationary
  3. regressive
  4. immovable
Receptive to new ideas
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. liberal
  2. reformist
  3. tolerant
  4. lenient
  5. openminded
  6. revisionist
  7. liberalistic
  8. reform-minded
Antonyms:
  1. conservative
  2. moderate
  3. regressive
A person with liberal political opinions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. liberal
  2. liberalist
Antonyms:
  1. conservative
A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
Synonyms:
  1. advancing
  2. progressive-tense
  3. imperfect
  4. imperfect-tense
  5. continuous tense

Words Related to Progressive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Progressive Sentence Examples

  • An inner product may be either progressive or regressive.

  • He will accept it as a stage, of no small importance, in progressive definition; but he will seek to go further.

  • The censors, being elected on a general ticket, were always more progressive than the convention, which was chosen on the principle of equal township representation.

  • Men of Pinckney's type were not in sympathy with the progressive democratic spirit of America, and they began to withdraw from politics after about 1800.

  • They are among the most progressive of the Lebanon elements.

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