Progressive vs Cumulative - What's the difference?
progressive | cumulative |
Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas or methods.
Of or relating to progressive education.
(of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
Advancing in severity.
liberal (politically)
(grammar) continuous
A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
(grammar) A progressive verb.
Incorporating all data up to the present
That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
* Francis Bacon
* Trench
That tends to accumulate
(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
As adjectives the difference between progressive and cumulative
is that progressive is favouring or promoting progress; advanced while cumulative is incorporating all data up to the present.As a noun progressive
is a person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.progressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a progressive politician
- progressive business leadership
- a progressive school
- progressive paralysis
Antonyms
* regressive * (advancing in severity) non-progressive * conservativeDerived terms
* progressive euchre * progressiveness * progressivism * progressivityNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* future perfect progressive * future progressive * past perfect progressive * past progressive * present perfect progressive * present progressivecumulative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
- The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .