regress

Speech parts

1. regress - Noun

2. regress - Verb

Meaning

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

To go back; to return to a former place or state.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

retrogress return revert regression lapse retrograde relapse reversion retrogression backslide retroversion recidivate fall back turn back fall

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Antonyms

progress advance march darwinism development increase

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Hypernyms

change return turn decline reverse reasoning

Hyponyms

recover lapse relapse recede recuperate go back

Phrases with the word

academic regress educational regress age regress

Derivatives

regressed regressing

Examples

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Marcel Proust

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. Robert Anton Wilson

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. Seth MacFarlane

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. Alan Rickman

Progess, do not regress. Edward C. Prescott

The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress. Angelus Silesius

Close letter words and terms

regredient regreen regreet regressable regressand regressed