progressive

Значение

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.

Пишется через дефис как

pro‧gress‧ive

Произносится как (IPA)

/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/

Этимология

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

Предложения

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

В них она разделяет свое уныние от ее физического упадка и прогрессивной слепоты.