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unprogressive

/pruh-gres-iv/US // prəˈgrɛs ɪv //UK // (prəˈɡrɛsɪv) //

不进则退,不进步的,不进步,不入流

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
    • : making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community.
    • : characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.
    • : Progressive, of or relating to any of the Progressive parties in politics.
    • : going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
    • : noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.
    • : of or relating to progressive education: progressive schools.
    • : Grammar. noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference.
    • : Medicine/Medical. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, especially in political matters.
    • : Progressive, a member of a Progressive party.
    • : Grammar. the progressive aspect.a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it.

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Examples

  • On the other, there’s a point when even the most progressive parent squirms when confronted with a moaning, breathless roll in the sheets on a 50-inch screen.

  • The Council, under Campbell, Williamson said, was not nearly as progressive as it acted.

  • He was also involved in the founding of Catalist, the flagship progressive data company.

  • Key financial regulatory positions remain unfilled, and progressives oppose some leading candidates.

  • Today’s progressives are in danger of repeating my generation’s mistakes.

  • Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.

  • But now his politics were offending the progressive sensibilities of the American film industry.

  • They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.

  • Some imagine Senator Elizabeth Warren as the charismatic leader of a progressive version of the “tea party.”

  • Throughout the progressive movement, this sentiment is echoed almost everywhere.

  • The act, however, is a progressive piece of legislation and creates new conditions as the result of its own operation.

  • At first geologists were disposed to attribute all the phenomena of mountain-folding to the progressive cooling of the earth.

  • Science and revelation are therefore progressive, though in somewhat different ways.

  • In this section we can see how the progressive melting gradually brings the rocky débris into plain view.

  • I am too enlightened and progressive to feel comfortable in my own country, and that is why I spend so much time in England.