Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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progressive | Yes | Yes | No | No |
pluralist | Yes | No | No | No |
progressive (noun) | pluralist (noun) |
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a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society |
a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature |
a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time |
progressive (adjective) | pluralist (adjective) |
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favoring or promoting progress | |
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | |
advancing in severity | |
gradually advancing in extent | |
favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | |
(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position |