Progressive vs Digress - What's the difference?
progressive | digress |
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.
To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
* Holland
* John Locke
* {{quote-song
, year = 1959
, title = In Old Mexico
, composer = (Tom Lehrer)
, passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .)
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To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
* Shakespeare
As an adjective progressive
is belonging to or supporting a.As a noun progressive
is a member or supporter of a.As a verb digress is
to step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.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 progressivedigress
English
Verb
(es)- Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
- In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
- Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.
