| 单词 | progressive |
| 释义 | progressive (once / 457 pages) 1adjn 2adj 3n 4adj People who are progressive favor reform and civil liberties: this is the opposite of conservative, and means something close to liberal. Progressive people are interested in change and progress. You're a progressive thinker if you like to think up new ways of doing things and you’re open to change. You have a progressive attitude towards gender if you dress girls in blue and boys in pink to challenge stereotypes. Progressive also refers to a type of verb tense, and to taxes that increase as your income increases. This word applies to lots of things that slowly increase or keep making progress. WORD FAMILYprogressive: nonprogressive, progressively, progressiveness, progressives, progressivism, progressivity, unprogressive+/progressivism: progressivisms USAGE EXAMPLESProgressive voices, loud ones, will be needed to hold him accountable. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The president’s next tweet hinted at progressive fears over Trump’s nomination of a number of climate change deniers to key positions in his cabinet. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Traditionally, progressives defined themselves, at least in part, by a desire for change. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj favoring or promoting progress progressive schools Syn|Ant forward at or near or directed toward the front industrialhaving highly developed industries advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modernahead of the times advancing, forward, forward-movingmoving forward modernised, modernizedbrought up to date state-of-the-artthe highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time) regressive opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state backwarddirected or facing toward the back or rear atavistic, throwbackcharacteristic of an atavist retrograde, retrogressivegoing from better to worse returning, revertingtending to return to an earlier state unmodernised, unmodernizednot brought up to date 2adj favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) Syn reform-minded, reformist liberal tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition 3adj (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases Syn|Ant degressive (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount regressive (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases 4n a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties 2Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper liberal, liberalist conservative, conservativist a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas armchair liberal a person of liberal ideals who takes no action to realize them latitudinariana person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) neoliberala liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism pluralistsomeone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society Whiga member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories adult, grownup a fully developed person from maturity onward 1adj advancing in severity progressive paralysis Syn active tending to become more severe or wider in scope 2adj gradually advancing in extent 3Syn increasing becoming greater or larger n a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense present progressive, present progressive tense a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance past progressive, past progressive tensea progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past future progressive, future progressive tensea progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time adj (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position progressive euchre progressive tournaments Syn ordered having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule |
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