progressive advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis"
Adverb
forward -
at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations)
dialect,
idiom,
accent the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
Forward -
toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to seeing you"
backward,
back in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
Forward -
near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments"
Forward -
in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"
Forward -
One of the eight players whose primary task is to maintain possession of the ball.
Forward -
A player on a team in footballsoccer in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.