Main entry: progressive, liberal, liberalist
Definition: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Antonyms: conservative, conservativist
Definition: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Main entry: progressive
Definition: favoring or promoting progress
Usage: progressive schools
Antonyms: regressive
Definition: opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
Antonyms: backward
Definition: directed or facing toward the back or rear
Antonyms: reverse
Definition: of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
Antonyms: backward
Definition: (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
Antonyms: backward, backwards, back, rearward, rearwards
Definition: at or to or toward the back or rear
Definition: in or to or toward a past time
Antonyms: old style, old style font
Definition: a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes
Antonyms: nonmodern
Definition: not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time
Main entry: progressive
Definition: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
Antonyms: regressive
Definition: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases
Main entry: progressive
Definition: advancing in severity
Usage: progressive paralysis
Antonyms: inactive
Definition: not active physically or mentally
Antonyms: inactive
Definition: not engaged in full-time work
Antonyms: inactive
Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Antonyms: inactive
Definition: (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
Definition: lacking in energy or will
Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
Antonyms: extinct
Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive
Antonyms: stative
Definition: ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action
Antonyms: passive
Definition: expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb
Antonyms: inactive
Definition: not exerting influence or change
Antonyms: quiet
Definition: of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.
Main entry: progressive, reform-minded, reformist
Definition: favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
Antonyms: conservative, conservativist
Definition: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Antonyms: conservative
Definition: resistant to change
Main entry: progressive
Definition: (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
Usage: progressive euchre; progressive tournaments
Antonyms: unordered, disordered
Definition: not arranged in order
Main entry: progressive
Definition: gradually advancing in extent