Word Meanings - IMPROGRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not progressive. De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.

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• GRESSORIAL; GRESSORIOUS
  Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PROGRESSIVE
  1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing
• RETROGRESS
  Retrogression. H. Spenser.
• CONGRESSIVE
  Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• CONGRESSMAN
  A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
• INTRANSGRESSIBLE
  Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland.
• REGRESSIVELY
  In a regressive manner.
• TIGRESS
  The female of the tiger. Holland.
• TRANSGRESSIVE
  Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -
• TRANSGRESS
  1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton. 3. To
• PROGRESSION
  Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
• RETROGRESSION
  Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also
• CONGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates. Congressional and official labor. E. Everett. Congressional District, one of the divisions into which a State is periodically divided ,
• DIGRESSIONAL
  Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. T. Warton.
• EGRESS
  The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. (more info) 1. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us,
• INTROGRESSION
  The act of going in; entrance. Blount.
• PROGRESSIST
  One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
• CONGRESS
  p.p. -gressus, to go or come together; con- + grati to go or step, 1. A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter. Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there;congress in the field great Jove withstands. Dryden. 2.
• PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
  various American states; esp.: One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the