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retrogressive

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective retrogressive has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

retrogressivea. [Cf. F. rétrogressif.].
  •  Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

retrogressive

ascending, atavistic, axial, back, back-flowing, 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, marcescent, mounting, passing, pining, plunging, progressive, reactionary, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retroactive, retrocessive, retrograde, 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

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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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