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regressive

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Adjective
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re=gres=sive

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective regressive has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

regressivea. [Cf. F. régressif.].
  •  Passing back; returning.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.  [1913 Webster]
Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

regressive, adj.
1 regressing; characterized by regression.
2 (of a tax) proportionally greater on lower incomes.

Derivative
regressively adv. regressiveness n.

THESAURUS

regressive

apostate, ascending, atavistic, axial, back, back-flowing, backsliding, backward, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, degenerate, descending, deteriorating, disintegrating, down-trending, downward, draining, drifting, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, flagging, flowing, fluent, flying, fragmenting, going, going to pieces, gyrational, gyratory, languishing, lapsing, marcescent, mounting, passing, pining, plunging, progressive, reactionary, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, recrudescent, reflowing, refluent, relapsing, retroactive, retrocessive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revulsionary, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, shriveling, sideward, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, soaring, streaming, subsiding, tabetic, up-trending, upward, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening

ROGET THESAURUS

regressive

Reversion

N reversion, return, revulsion, turning point, turn of the tide, status quo ante bellum, calm before a storm, alternation, inversion, recoil, retreat, regression, retrogression, restoration, relapse, recidivism, atavism, vicinism, reverting, regressive, revulsive, reactionary, retrorse, a rebours.

Regression

N regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil), flip-flop, volte-face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point, receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary, back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours, revenons a nos moutons, as you were.

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