Regressive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Regressive \Re*gress"ive\ (r?*gr?s"?v), a. [Cf. F.
     r['e]gressif.]
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     1. Passing back; returning.
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     2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.
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     {Regressive metamorphism}.
        (a) (Biol.) See {Retrogression}.
        (b) (Physiol.) See {Katabolism}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  regressive
       adj 1: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount
              increases [ant: {progressive}]
       2: opposing progress [ant: {progressive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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