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Grammar : Adj
Spell : pruh-gres-iv
Phonetic Transcription : prəˈgrɛs ɪv

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Origin :
  • c.1600, "characterized by advancement" (in action, character, etc.), from progress (n.) + -ive, or else from French progressif, from past participle stem of Latin progredi. Of taxation, from 1889; of jazz, from 1947. Meaning "characterized by striving for change and innovation, avant-garde, liberal" is from 1908.
  • In the socio-political sense "favoring reform; radically liberal," it emerged in various British contexts from the 1880s; in the U.S. it was active as a movement in the 1890s and a generation thereafter, the name being taken again from time to time, most recently by some more liberal Democrats and other social activists, by c.2000. The noun in the sense "one who favors social and political change in the name of progress" is first attested 1865 (originally in Christianity). Earlier in a like sense were progressionist (1849, adjective; 1884, noun), progressist (1848). Related: Progressively; progressiveness.
  • adj with outdated ideas
Example sentences :
  • The Government was unprogressive, and fees and salaries were high.
  • Extract from : « The Canadian Dominion » by Oscar D. Skelton
  • She should guard against becoming autocratic and unprogressive.
  • Extract from : « The Canadian Girl at Work » by Marjory MacMurchy
  • That is to say, he prefer his hands to be unprogressive and in debt.
  • Extract from : « The Southern South » by Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Her bigotry is that of age, her unprogressive slowness of change is senile.
  • Extract from : « The Way to the West » by Emerson Hough
  • I felt no condemnation; yet the memory, static, unprogressive, haunted me.
  • Extract from : « The War of the Worlds » by H. G. Wells
  • An endless (it may be) succession of unprogressive, fruitless events.
  • Extract from : « The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays » by J. (John) Joly
  • But probably he was a Conservative, for these big men were often unprogressive.
  • Extract from : « The Judge » by Rebecca West
  • Instinct is a faculty which belongs to unprogressive species.
  • Extract from : « Cambridge Essays on Education » by Various
  • Her people were unprogressive, her resources undeveloped, her self-defensive capacities insignificant, her government corrupt.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 3 » by Various
  • The elements of an older day were preserved and stereotyped, attractive but unprogressive.
  • Extract from : « A Historical Geography of the British Colonies » by Charles Prestwood Lucas
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