To be progressive, does that mean you are all for "gressive"? What if you are "gressive" again?

I've wondered the same thing about church services. At the start you have a pre-lude. At the end you have a post-lude. So during the service are you luding?

Posted by: rob at June 11, 2005 11:41 AM

That's an interesting take on that, Rob. Actually, I had something more like this in mind:

progressive
adj

1. Advanced in outlook; using or favouring new methods.

Thesaurus: liberal, avant-garde, radical, forward-looking, revolutionary, modern, reformist, advanced, enlightened, enterprising, up-and-coming; Antonym: regressive [emphasis added], reactionary.

2. Moving forward or advancing continuously or by stages.

Thesaurus: rising, advancing, ongoing, growing, developing, escalating, increasing, intensifying, dynamic, accelerating, continuing; Antonym: stagnant.

3. Said of a disease: continuously increasing in severity or complication.
4. Said of a dance or game: involving changes of partner at intervals.
5. Said of taxation: increasing as the sum taxed increases.
6. grammar.

Said of a verbal aspect or tense: expressing continuing action or a continuing state, formed in English with be and the present participle, as in I am doing it and they will be going. Also called continuous. Compare perfect

noun

1. Someone with progressive ideas.
2a. grammar.

The progressive aspect or tense;

2b. grammar.

A verb in a progressive aspect or tense.

Posted by: Rev. Mike at June 11, 2005 08:50 PM