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Dictionary Results for progressively:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
progressively
    adv 1: advancing in amount or intensity; "she became
           increasingly depressed" [syn: increasingly,
           progressively, more and more]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Progressive \Pro*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. progressif.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing
      progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; --
      opposed to retrograde.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (U. S. History) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   4. Favoring improvement, change, progress, or reform,
      especially in a political context; -- used of people.
      Contrasted with conservative.
      [PJC]

   Note: The term progressive is sometimes used to describe the
         views of a politician, where liberal might have been
         used at one time, in communities where the term liberal
         has come to connote extreme views.
         [PJC]

   5. Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or
      education, holding tolerant and liberal ideas, and
      generally favoring improvement in civic life; -- of towns
      and communities.
      [PJC]

   Progressive euchre or Progressive whist, a way of playing
      at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at
      the first table go to the last table, and the winners at
      all the tables, except the first, move up to the next
      table.

   Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder
      characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles.
      [1913 Webster] -- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. --
      Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

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