Hyphenation of Progressive

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word Progressive ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

Pro-gres-sive

Definitions of Progressive :

1.	A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
2.	A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
3.	Favoring or promoting progress Progressive schools
4.	Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
5.	(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
6.	Gradually advancing in extent
7.	(of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position Progressive euchre Progressive tournaments
8.	Advancing in severity Progressive paralysis

Synonyms of Progressive :

adj	progressive, advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern, advancing, forward, forward-moving, incremental, modernized, modernised, state-of-the-art, forward, industrial
adj	reformist, reform-minded, liberal
adj	progressive, degressive, graduated, proportional
adj	increasing
adj	active
noun	progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense, tense
noun	liberal, adult, grownup

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.