| Main Entry: | progressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberal; growing |
Synonyms: |
accelerating, advanced, advancing, avant-garde*, bleeding-heart, broad, broad-minded, continuing, continuous, developing, dynamic, enlightened, enterprising, escalating, forward-looking, go-ahead, gradual, graduated, increasing, intensifying, left of center, left*, lenient, modern, ongoing, onward, open-minded, radical, reformist, revolutionary, tolerant, up-and-coming, up-to-date, wide |
Antonyms: |
conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
Synonyms: |
alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, going, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, shifting, simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling, turning, walking, working |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
Antonyms: |
abeyant, dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | advanced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ahead in position, time, manner |
Synonyms: |
avant-garde, breakthrough, cutting-edge, excellent, exceptional, extreme, first, foremost, forward, higher, late, leading, leading-edge, liberal, precocious, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art*, unconventional |
Antonyms: |
after, behind |
| Main Entry: | alphabetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in ascending order of a writing system |
Synonyms: |
A to Z, consecutive, graded, indexed, logical, ordered, progressive |
Antonyms: |
unalphabetical |
| Main Entry: | avant-garde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconventional, forward-looking |
Synonyms: |
beat*, experimental, head*, hip*, innovative, lead, leading-edge, liberal, new, new wave, pioneering, progressive, radical, state-of-the-art, vanguard |
Antonyms: |
conservative, conventional |
| Main Entry: | broad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberal-minded |
Synonyms: |
advanced, cultivated, experienced, open, open-minded, permissive, progressive, radical, tolerant, unbiased, wide |
Antonyms: |
close-minded, small-minded |
| Main Entry: | broad-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberal |
Synonyms: |
advanced, catholic, cosmopolitan, dispassionate, flexible, free-thinking, indulgent, liberal, open, open-minded, permissive, progressive, radical, receptive, responsive, tolerant, unbiased, unbigoted, undogmatic, unprejudiced, wide |
Antonyms: |
close-minded, small-minded |
| Main Entry: | chronological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in consecutive time |
Synonyms: |
chronographic, chronologic, chronometric, chronometrical, chronoscopic, classified, dated, historical, horological, horometrical, in due course, in due time, in order, in sequence, junctural, order archival, ordered, progressive, sequent, sequential, tabulated, temporal |
| Main Entry: | consecutive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in sequence |
Synonyms: |
after, chronological, connected, constant, continuing, continuous, ensuing, following, going on, in order, in turn, increasing, later, logical, numerical, one after another, progressive, running, sequent, sequential, serial, serialized, seriate, seriatim, succedent, succeeding, successional, successive, understandable, uninterrupted |
Antonyms: |
broken, discontinuous, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, unconsecutive |
| Main Entry: | dynamic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, vital |
Synonyms: |
activating, aggressive, changing, charismatic, coming on strong, compelling, driving, effective, electric, energetic, energizing, enterprising, forceful, forcible, go-ahead, go-getter, go-getting, highpowered, hyped-up, influential, intense, lively, lusty, magnetic, peppy*, play for keeps, play hard ball, potent, powerful, productive, progressive, red-blooded, strenuous, vehement, vigorous, vitalizing, zippy |
Antonyms: |
apathetic, boring, dull, inactive, passive, unexciting |