progress

progress is a 8-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
2. noun. In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
3. noun. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
4. noun. In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
5. noun. In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
6. noun. Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
7. noun. A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
8. intransitive verb. To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
9. intransitive verb. To make improvement; to advance.
10. transitive verb. To make progress in; to pass through.
11. noun. gradual improvement or growth or development

    "advancement of knowledge"

    "great progress in the arts"

    Synonyms: advancement

12. noun. the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

    Synonyms: advance, advancement, procession, progression

13. noun. a movement forward

    "he listened for the progress of the troops"

    Synonyms: advance, progression

14. verb. develop in a positive way

    "He progressed well in school"

    "My plants are coming along"

    Synonyms: advance

15. verb. form or accumulate steadily

    "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"

    "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

    Synonyms: build

16. verb. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

    "Time marches on"

    Synonyms: advance

Synonyms

advancement, advance, procession, progression, build

Common word forms

progressed, progresser, progresses, progressing

Words from these letters

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