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IMPROGRESSIVE

Definition: IMPROGRESSIVE

IMPROGRESSIVE

Adjective

1. Not progressive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "IMPROGRESSIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Modern Translations: IMPROGRESSIVE

Language Translations for "improgressive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

improgressiveay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "IMPROGRESSIVE"

Words rhyming with "IMPROGRESSIVE" (pronounced 'Im`pro*gress"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Demissive, Denotive, Depressive, Desistive, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative, Erective, Exceptive, Excessive, Exertive, Exhaustive, Expective, Expressive, Extructive, Fluxive, Guessive, impressive, Incorruptive, Indefective, ineffective, Inexhaustive, inexpressive, infective, Infestive, Inflective, Inflexive, Inflictive, Influxive, Inoppressive, Inspective, instructive, Insuppressive, Interceptive, Interdictive, Interruptive, inventive, Investive, Irreflective, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Progressive, Protective, Protractive, recollective, reconstructive, Redressive, reflective, reflexive, refractive, regressive, rejective, repressive, Resentive, resistive, restrictive, Resultive, Retortive, retroactive, Revertive, secretive, selective, self-assertive, Self-elective, Sensive, sportive, suggestive, Superstructive, suppressive, tractive, Transgressive, Translative, Unexceptive, unexpressive, Unpleasive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: IMPROGRESSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-s-v"

-2 letters: improvisers, overimpress, progressive.

-3 letters: impressive, improviser, improvises, permissive.

-4 letters: improvers, improvise, pierogies, previsors, primroses, promisees, promisers, reimposes, rigorisms, serpigoes, simperers.

-5 letters: emissive, emperors, emprises, episomes, gossiper, grievers, imposers, impreses, improver, improves, isogrivs, miseries, misgives, mispoise, moperies, morrises, ogreisms, omissive, overripe, pirogies, pismires, premiers, premises, premorse, previses, previsor, primeros, primrose, prioress, priories, priseres, prissier, progress, promisee, promiser, promises, reimpose, remorses, removers, reposers, reprises, reproves, respires, reversos, revisers, revisors, rigorism, rivieres, roperies, roseries, semipros, simperer, spiremes, verismos.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-s-v"
 

+1 letter: overimpressing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: IMPROGRESSIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4D 50 52 4F 47 52 45 53 53 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --    .--.    .-.    ---    --.    .-.    .    ...    ...    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001101 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000111 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#77 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#71 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 0050 0052 004F 0047 0052 0045 0053 0053 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43475052494152395353435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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