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progressive

/prəˈɡrɛsɪv/

US pronunciation

American sound/prəˈɡrɛsɪv/

prəˈɡrɛsɪv

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

prə - ˈɡrɛsɪv -> progressive

Myanmar meaning

(adj) တိုးတက်သော။ လမ်းဟောင်းမလိုက်တိုးတက်တီထွင်သော။ အဟုန်တရွေ့ရွေ့တက်သော။ အဆင့်ဆင့်ဖြစ်သော။ တိုးတက်ဝါဒီ။

Full entry

progressive /prǝ'gresÇv/ adj

၁။ (က) (approv ) တိုးတက်သော။ a progressive firm/ nation. (ခ) လမ်းဟောင်းမလိုက် တိုးတက် တီထွင်သော။ progressive ideas ❍ progressive schools/ education ❍ progressive reforms ❍ a progressive political party.
၂။ အဟုန်တရွေ့ရွေ့ တက်သော။ အဆင့်ဆင့် ဖြစ်သော။ a progressive disease ❍ a progressive reduction in the number of staff.
n [usu pl] တိုးတက်(ဝါဒီ)။ political battles between progressives and conservatives.
❏ progressively adv အဆင့်ဆင့်။ တရွေ့ရွေ့။ get progressively harder/ slower/ weaker ❍ His eyesight is becoming progressively worse.
❏ progressive tense n = CONTINUOUS TENSE
❏ progressivism n [U] တိုးတက်ပြောင်းလဲရေးဝါဒ။ political/ social progressivism.

More examples

A progressive tax system
An alliance of progressive forces
The disease causes progressive deterioration of the nervous system.
The progressive development of a professional style of nursing
Progressive jazz/rock

Synonyms

accelerating, advanced, advancing, avant-garde, bleeding-heart, broad, broad-minded, continuing, continuous, developing, dynamic, enlightened, enterprising, escalating, forward-looking, go-ahead, gradual, graduated, increasing, intensifying, left, left of center, left-winger, leftist, lenient, liberal, liberal; growing, modern, ongoing, onward, open-minded, piecemeal, radical, reformist, regulars, revolutionary, solids, step-by-step, tolerant, unbroken, up-and-coming, up-to-date, wide

Antonyms

acute, conservative, intermittent, moderate, reactionary, right-winger

Cross references

accelerating advanced advancing avant-garde bleeding-heart broad broad-minded continuing continuous developing dynamic enlightened enterprising escalating forward-looking go-ahead gradual graduated increasing intensifying left left of center left-winger leftist lenient liberal liberal; growing modern

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