Regressive
7 definitions retrieved  Regressive \Re*gress"ive\ (r?*gr?s"?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]gressif.] [1913 Webster] 1. Passing back; returning. [1913 Webster] 2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. [1913 Webster] Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism. [1913 Webster]  regressive adj 1: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases [ant: progressive] 2: opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state [ant: progressive]  regressive [rigresiv] rückläufig  regressive csökkenô hátraható regresszív visszaesô visszafejlôdô visszafeléhaladó  regressive regressiv adj regressive rückläufig adj  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 Regressive related |
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