<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: The city recently elected a progressive mayor.</li><li>making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: We are a progressive community supporting and connecting innovative artists from many different cultures.</li><li>Progressive, of or relating to any of the Progressive parties in politics.</li><li>going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step: We are seeing a progressive increase in average temperatures worldwide.</li><li>relating to or being a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.</li><li>of or relating to progressive education: He worries that progressive schools achieve less solid mastery than conventional schools.</li><li>Medicine/Medical: continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, especially in political matters.</li><li>a member of a Progressive party.</li><li>an instance or form of a verb in this aspect, such as They are thinking about it, I was reading when you called, or Tomorrow I will be traveling to Boston.</li></ul>