progressive

Adjective

• advancing in severity
  • progressive paralysis
    

• (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
  • progressive euchre
    
  • progressive tournaments
    

• gradually advancing in extent

• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

• favoring or promoting progress
  • progressive schools
    

Noun

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  reformist , reform-minded , liberal , liberalist , progressive tense , imperfect , imperfect tense , continuous tense
• Antonyms: 
  regressive , conservative , conservativist