Regress Synonyms and Antonyms
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Synonyms for Regress
To slide backward in morals or religious enthusiasm; become less virtuous, less pious, etc.
To go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief:
recidivous
Prone to relapse into immoral or antisocial behavior.
Relapse is to return to a prior condition, or to have an illness or addiction reoccur.
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
To move backward, esp. into an earlier, less complex, or worse condition; decline; degenerate
Of or relating to orbital motion in the direction opposite that of the predominant motion in an orbital system.
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Of or relating to retrogression
(Psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
A deterioration or decline to a previous state
The definition of abate means to become less or lower in amount or force than at a prior time.
To cause to move backward or in a reverse direction:
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(Intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
To ebb means to move out further into the sea and further from land or to gradually decline or lessen.
To recede is to diminish or to move back.
To go back in thought or speech
(Intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
(Nonstandard) To roll back.
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To leave or return, as from a military position.
The return, or reappearance, of characteristics present in early ancestral generations but not in those that have intervened
(Medicine) The state or condition of being retroverted.
reasoning backward
the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
To turn back.
Antonyms for Regress
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better:
To progress is to move forward or advance towards completion.
To increase in size and develop toward maturity, as a plant or animal does by assimilating food
To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need:
Words Related to Regress
To slope backward
To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages:
To a greater extent or degree:
To petition again.
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