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Progressive

Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.

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Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Advanced 84% connected

of Advance

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Advanced 84% connected

of Advance

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Advancing 84% connected

of Advance

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Advancing 84% connected

of Advance

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Forward 84% connected

An agreement; a covenant; a promise.

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Forward 84% connected

An agreement; a covenant; a promise.

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Increasing 84% connected

of Increase

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Increasing 84% connected

of Increase

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Innovative 84% connected

Characterized by, or introducing, innovations.

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Innovative 84% connected

Characterized by, or introducing, innovations.

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Liberal 84% connected

Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spi…

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Liberal 84% connected

Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spi…

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Modern 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or ti…

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Modern 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or ti…

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Modernized 84% connected

of Modernize

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Modernized 84% connected

of Modernize

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Ordered 84% connected

of Order

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Ordered 84% connected

of Order

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Broader term 4

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Tense 76% connected

One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Narrower term 3

Latitudinarian 76% connected

Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.

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Pluralist 76% connected

A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

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Whig 76% connected

Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.

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See also 4

Forward 66% connected

An agreement; a covenant; a promise.

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Forward 66% connected

An agreement; a covenant; a promise.

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Industrial 66% connected

Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor,…

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Industrial 66% connected

Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor,…

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Synonym 4

Imperfect 92% connected

Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.

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Liberal 92% connected

Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Liberalist 92% connected

A liberal.

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Reformist 92% connected

A reformer.

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