8 synonyms found - words and phrases with similiar meaning.
Definition
adjective
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- advancing in severity
- favoring or promoting progress
- gradually advancing in extent
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
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