Synonyms of the word regressive


REGRESSIVEATAVISTIC - BACKWARD - FIXED - FLAT - GRADUATED - RETROGRADE - RETROGRESSIVE - RETURNING - REVERTING - THROWBACK - UNMODERNISED - UNMODERNIZED

regressive

  • adj. That tends to return, revert or regress.
  • adj. (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.

atavistic

  • adj. (biology) of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to…
  • adj. of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
  • adj. relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.

backward

  • adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
  • adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.
  • adj. Reluctant or unable to advance.
  • adj. Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.
  • adj. Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
  • adj. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
  • adj. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
  • adj. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
  • adj. Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
  • adj. Late or behindhand.
  • adj. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
  • adv. (of motion) In the direction towards the back; backwards.
  • adv. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
  • adv. By way of reflection; reflexively.
  • adv. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
  • n. The state behind or past.

fixed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of fix.
  • adj. Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
  • adj. Stationary.
  • adj. Attached; affixed.
  • adj. Chemically stable.
  • adj. Supplied with what one needs.
  • adj. (law) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
  • adj. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
  • adj. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
  • adj. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.

flat

  • adj. Having no variations in height.
  • adj. (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
  • adj. (slang) Describing certain features, usually the breasts and/or buttocks, that are extremely small or…
  • adj. (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
  • adj. (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
  • adj. (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
  • adj. Uninteresting.
  • adj. Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the…
  • adj. (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
  • adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
  • adj. (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
  • adj. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull.
  • adj. Absolute; downright; peremptory.
  • adj. (phonetics, dated, of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant.
  • adj. (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective…
  • adj. (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
  • adj. (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
  • adv. So as to be flat.
  • adv. Bluntly.
  • adv. (with units of time, distance, etc) Not exceeding.
  • adv. Completely.
  • adv. Directly; flatly.
  • adv. (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
  • n. An area of level ground.
  • n. (music) A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter…
  • n. (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/tire.
  • n. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
  • n. (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
  • n. The flat part of something.
  • n. A wide, shallow container.
  • n. (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded…
  • n. (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
  • n. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  • n. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  • n. (US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
  • n. A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
  • n. (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a…
  • n. (obsolete) A dull fellow; a simpleton.
  • n. (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts…
  • v. (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
  • v. (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
  • v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
  • v. (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
  • n. (chiefly Britain, New England, New Zealand and Australia, archaic elsewhere) An apartment, usually on…

graduated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of graduate.
  • adj. (obsolete) In steps.
  • adj. Having a university degree; having completed training.
  • adj. Marked with graduations.
  • adj. Arranged by grade, level, degree.
  • adj. (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
  • adj. (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

retrograde

  • adj. Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement…
  • adj. Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
  • adj. (astronomy, of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
  • adj. (geology) Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
  • n. A degenerate person.
  • n. (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last and…
  • v. (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.
  • v. (intransitive, astronomy) To show retrogradation.

retrogressive

  • adj. Of or relating to retrogression.
  • adj. Directed towards the rear or the past; retrograde.

returning

  • v. present participle of return.
  • n. The act of one who returns; a coming back.

reverting

  • v. present participle of revert.

throwback

  • n. A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
  • n. (pejorative) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
  • n. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
  • n. An atavism.
  • n. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.

unmodernised

  • adj. Alternative form of unmodernized.

unmodernized

  • adj. Not modernized.

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