progress
Gradual positive change
Progress is forward movement toward a destination or goal.
Physical progress covers distance; abstract progress advances toward completion or improvement: We're making progress on the house renovation, medical progress.
The verb stresses pro-GRESS: The work progressed slowly.
To be in progress is to be underway.
Progress often carries optimistic connotations—the assumption that change means improvement.
Move forward, continue
- advanceMove or progress forward
- moveChange location or act
- continueGo on without stopping
- travelMovement between locations
navigate · traverse · march · forge ahead · push forward · press on · onward · pace
Sudden important advance
- headwayForward progress achieved
- strideExtended single footstep
- leapSudden springing movement
- gainPositive return received
improvement · enhancement · milestone · achievement · accomplishment · step forward · inroad · development
Progress toward maturity
- expansionIncrease in scope
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- flourishingProspering vigorously
- blossomingBeginning to flower
evolution · cultivation · ripening · unfolding · transformation · emergence · advancement · enrichment
Favorable outcome attained
- thrivingSucceeding vigorously
- boomLoud deep sound
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- fortuneWealth or destiny
benefit · gain · reward · triumph · victory · achievement · well-being · affluence
Improve by correcting faults
- equalitySame status for all
- justiceFair treatment under law
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- liberationRelease from constraint
emancipation · suffrage · inclusion · activism · modernization · enlightenment · tolerance · democracy
proceed
Move forward, continue
travel · navigate · traverse · march · forge ahead · push forward · press on · onward · pace · locomotion
breakthrough
Sudden important advance
gain · improvement · enhancement · milestone · achievement · accomplishment · step forward · inroad · development · momentum
development
Progress toward maturity
- expansionIncrease in scope
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- flourishingProspering vigorously
blossoming · evolution · cultivation · ripening · unfolding · transformation · emergence · advancement · enrichment · building
success
Favorable outcome attained
fortune · benefit · gain · reward · triumph · victory · achievement · well-being · affluence · abundance
reform
Improve by correcting faults
- equalitySame status for all
- justiceFair treatment under law
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
liberation · emancipation · suffrage · inclusion · activism · modernization · enlightenment · tolerance · democracy · abolition
- developmentgrowth, advancement, expansion, improvement, enhancement
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- coachinghead coach, life coaching, mentorship, executive coaching, fitness coach
- productivityproductivity, checking off, prioritization, finishing, output
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, suffrage movement, notable women
- achievementaccomplished, accomplishing, achieved, achievement, accomplishment
progressregress
Revert to earlier state
retreat · regression · retrogress · retrogression · backslide
progressdecline
Decrease or refuse
deterioration · decay · deteriorate · degradation · degeneration
progressstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
standstill · inertia · stasis · stop · immobility
- in progressCurrently being done
- work in progressIncomplete ongoing effort
- make progressMove toward completion
- progress reportSummary of advancement made
- progress barVisual task completion indicator
- technological progressAdvancement through invention
progression, progressive, progressing, progressed, progresses, progressively, progressions, progressivism, progressives