Retrogressive

3 definitions found

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

  Retrogressive \Re`tro*gres"sive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trogressif.]
     1. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining
        from a better to a worse state.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition;


        declining from a more perfect state of organization;
        regressive.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  retrogressive
       adj : going from better to worse [syn: {retrograde}]

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

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "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