present progressive

1. 1.

   a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance

   Synonymspresent progressive tense

   Broaderprogressive

Questions about present progressive

What does present progressive mean?

present progressive means "a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance".

What is another word for present progressive?

Close synonyms include present progressive tense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is present progressive a common word?

present progressive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.