progressive

Meaning

Adj

1. Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
2. Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
3. Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
4. Liberal.
5. Of or relating to progressive education.
6. Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
7. Advancing in severity.
8. Continuous.

Noun

1. A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
2. A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.

Hyphenated as

pro‧gress‧ive

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/

Etymology

From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe.

Sentences

In them she shares her discouragement at her physical decline and progressive blindness .