'progressive' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'progressive' with 2 example sentences.
- progressive adjective
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: favoring or promoting progress
: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
: favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
: gradually advancing in extent
: (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
: advancing in severity
- progressive noun
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: a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
His policies were too progressive.
The grammatical form employed here is the present progressive.