Synonyms of the word

progressive

• adj. Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
• adj. Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
• adj. Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.
• adj. Of or relating to progressive education.
• adj. (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
• adj. Advancing in severity.
• adj. liberal (politically).
• adj. (grammar) continuous.
• n. A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
• n. (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used the progressive tense and generally conjugated as to end in…

active

• adj. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed…
• adj. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
• adj. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; — opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct.
• adj. Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; — opposed to dull, sluggish,…
• adj. Requiring or implying action or exertion;—opposed to sedentary or to tranquil.
• adj. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; — opposed to speculative or theoretical.
• adj. Brisk; lively.
• adj. Implying or producing rapid action.
• adj. (heading, grammar) About verbs.
• adj. (gay sexual slang) (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than…
• n. A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting.

adult

• n. A fully grown human or animal.
• n. A person who has reached the legal age of majority, generally 18 years of age.
• adj. Fully grown.
• adj. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
• adj. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; designating pornography.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

advanced

• v. simple past tense and past participle of advance.
• adj. At or close to the state of the art.
• adj. Enhanced.
• adj. Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
• adj. In a late stage of development; greatly developed beyond an initial stage.
• adj. (phonetics) Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
• adj. (Philippine English) (Of a clock or watch) Indicating a time ahead of the correct time.

advancing

• v. present participle of advance.
• n. The act of proceeding forward; an advance.

degressive

• adj. Tending to decrease.
• adj. Decreasing in steps.

forward

• n. (dialectal or obsolete) Agreement; covenant.
• adj. Toward the front or at the front.
• adj. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
• adj. (finance) Expected in the future.
• adj. Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty.
• adj. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
• adv. Towards the front or from the front.
• adv. In the usual direction of travel.
• adv. Into the future.
• v. (transitive) To advance, promote.
• v. (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) to a third party.
• n. (rugby) one of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number…
• n. (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are…
• n. (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
• n. (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than…
• n. (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
• n. (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain…
• n. Misconstruction of foreword.

forward-looking

• adj. Having an interest in the future, and planning for it.

graduated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of graduate.
• adj. (obsolete) In steps.
• adj. Having a university degree; having completed training.
• adj. Marked with graduations.
• adj. Arranged by grade, level, degree.
• adj. (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
• adj. (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

grownup

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
• adj. Adult; fully developed; mature.
• n. An adult. (used especially by children).

imperfect

• adj. Not perfect.
• adj. (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
• adj. (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
• adj. (obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
• n. Something having a minor flaw.
• n. (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
• v. (transitive) To make imperfect.

increasing

• adj. on the increase.
• v. present participle of increase.
• n. (knitting) An increase.

industrial

• adj. Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
• adj. Produced by such industry.
• adj. Used by such industry.
• adj. Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
• adj. Massive in scale or quantity.
• adj. Employed as manpower by such industry.
• adj. (of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.
• adj. (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
• n. (dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.
• n. (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
• n. (finance) A bond or stock issued by such company.
• n. (informal, uncountable) industrial music.
• n. (informal) An industrial piercing.

innovative

• adj. Characterized by the creation of new ideas or things.
• adj. Forward looking; ahead of current thinking.

liberal

• adj. (now rare outside set phrases) Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which are considered…
• adj. Generous; willing to give unsparingly.
• adj. Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
• adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
• adj. Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
• adj. (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern…
• n. One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism).
• n. (US) Someone left-wing; one with a left-wing ideology.
• n. A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
• n. (Britain) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets (also…

liberalist

• n. A liberal.

modern

• adj. Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
• adj. (historical) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic…
• n. Someone who lives in modern times.
• n. The modern time.

modernised

• v. simple past tense and past participle of modernise.

modernized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of modernize.

proportional

• adj. At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in…
• adj. In proportion (to), proportionate. More common in US than UK.
• adj. Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces).

reformist

• adj. Advocating reform of an institution or body.
• adj. Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary…
• n. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
• n. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed…
• n. (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
• n. (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from…
• n. A member of a reformed religious denomination.

state-of-the-art

• adj. Alternative form of state of the art.
• n. Alternative form of state of the art.

tense

• n. (grammar, countable) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs…
• n. (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
• n. (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of…
• v. (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to.
• adj. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
• adj. Pulled taut, without any slack.
• v. To make or become tense.