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Synonyms for regressive


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ri-gres-iv
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈgrɛs ɪv

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Définition of regressive

Origin :
  • 1630s; see regress + -ive. In reference to taxation, it is attested from 1889. Related: Regressively.
  • As in reactionary : adj conservative
  • As in backward : adj toward the rear
  • As in recessive : adj passive
  • As in reversed : adj turned around
  • As in mossbacked : adj reactionary
  • As in retrogressive : adj backward
Example sentences :
  • He had conquered his regressive tendencies and his speech was improving.
  • Extract from : « Psychoanalysis » by Andr Tridon
  • In so far as sleep is psychologically determined, it is a regressive phenomenon.
  • Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
  • The double work-support is, of course, a great improvement, while the tool-support is regressive since it lacks a feed screw.
  • Extract from : « Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 » by Anonymous
  • Whether in regressive or progressive series, each to-day presents a case of arrested development.
  • Extract from : « The North American Slime-Moulds » by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
  • Sanity and insanity are, roughly speaking, states where progressive or regressive thinking rule.
  • Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
  • The above are more or less a priori reasons for regarding the stupor as a regressive reaction.
  • Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
  • The frequency with which the delusion of mutual death occurs in stupor is another evidence of its regressive psychology.
  • Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
  • This regressive metamorphosis—for I cannot style it otherwise—is rare but not without examples.
  • Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot
  • Activity is, therefore, not contradictory to the organism, but favors in it the natural progressive and regressive metamorphosis.
  • Extract from : « Pedagogics as a System » by Karl Rosenkranz
  • The conflict, however, played itself off in his dreams, offering a solution of a regressive type.
  • Extract from : « Psychoanalysis » by Andr Tridon

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