Going forward; moving onward; advancing; making progress, in any sense: as, progressive motion or course.Favoring progress; using one's influence or directing one's efforts in the line of advancement or improvement: as, to be progressive in one's ideas about education; a progressive age.Indicative of progress.and a myopathic form, related to pseudohypertrophic paralysis.n. One who is in favor of progress; one who promotes or commends reforms or changes: opposed to conservative.