progressing
Making steady headway
Progressing is moving forward or advancing toward a goal or completion.
Work progresses, diseases progress, students progress through grades.
The word implies steady movement rather than sudden change: The project is progressing nicely.
Something that is progressing may be improving or simply continuing its course—cancer progresses just as recovery does.
Onward in direction
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
- headwayForward progress achieved
- onwardToward what lies ahead
- strideExtended single footstep
movement · pace · continuation · journey · transition · proceeding · pushing ahead · gaining ground
Positive change in quality
- enhancementIncrease in quality
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
- refinementElegance of manner
- innovationCreating something original
transformation · modernization · optimization · reform · maturing · building · unfolding · emerging
Growing in scope
- flourishingProspering vigorously
- blossomingBeginning to flower
- maturingDeveloping toward completion
- developingBecoming more advanced
sprouting · budding · blooming · ripening · spreading · deepening · widening · proliferating
Fitting to new conditions
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- speciationFormation of distinct species
- divergenceSeparation from common origin
ancestry · phylogeny · survival of the fittest · genetic drift · transitioning · changing · morphing · shifting
forward
Onward in direction
stride · movement · pace · continuation · journey · transition · proceeding · pushing ahead · gaining ground · moving along
improvement
Positive change in quality
- enhancementIncrease in quality
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
- refinementElegance of manner
innovation · transformation · modernization · optimization · reform · maturing · building · unfolding · emerging · shaping
expanding
Growing in scope
- flourishingProspering vigorously
- blossomingBeginning to flower
- maturingDeveloping toward completion
developing · sprouting · budding · blooming · ripening · spreading · deepening · widening · proliferating · thriving
adaptation
Fitting to new conditions
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- speciationFormation of distinct species
divergence · ancestry · phylogeny · survival of the fittest · genetic drift · transitioning · changing · morphing · shifting · transforming
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- achievementaccomplished, accomplishing, achieved, achievement, accomplishment
- ongoing actionscontinuing, lasting, persisting, remaining, staying
- statusespending, active, approved, inactive, completed
- in progressunderway, pending, ongoing, active, unfinished
- progresspromotion, raise, ongoing, advancement, improvement
progressingregressing
Returning to earlier state
declining · deteriorating · retrogressing · backsliding · degenerating
progressingstagnating
Ceasing to develop
stalling · standing still · stuck · halting · stalled
progressingdeclining
Decreasing in strength
deteriorating · worsening · decaying · degenerating · degrading
- progressive left
- progressive valuesSocially reformist political beliefs
- geometric progressionSeries multiplying by constant
- progressive rockComplex, extended rock music
- progressive lensesLineless multifocal corrective lenses
- chord progressionSequence of tonal changes