<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.</li><li>The city recently elected a progressive mayor.</li><li>Synonyms: liberal.</li><li>Making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.</li><li>We are a progressive community supporting and connecting innovative artists from many different cultures.</li><li>Relating to or being a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.</li><li>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>Grammar: A verb aspect or other verb category used for an action or state in process at a particular point of reference in time, whether past, present, or future.</li></ul>