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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
retrogressive
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a retrogressive plan
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Don't get sucked into the retrogressive reactive syndrome, responding only to problems after they have arisen.
▪ Going back, starting over, is always either the easy option or a negative step in itself, retrogressive.
▪ In differing degrees they represent a retrogressive approach to the Aids epidemic that could cost tens of thousands of lives.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrogressive

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.

  2. (Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
retrogressive

"tending to move backward," 1785, from Latin retrogress-, past participle stem of retrogradi "move backward, go backward" (see retrograde) + -ive. Related: Retrogressively.

Wiktionary
retrogressive

a. 1 Of or relating to retrogression 2 Directed towards the rear or the past; retrograde

WordNet
retrogressive

adj. going from better to worse [syn: retrograde]

Usage examples of "retrogressive".

And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.

And of fulfilment of this he was not deprived, for when, some time after the swift gliding of the Pride had given place to a subdued and pulseless motion that was almost retrogressive, she was gradually overhauled by the Lass, it was noticed that she too was running at less than half-speed.

And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.

The very framing of the Goddess in those terms denies Her ever-present creative attributes and buries them in rhetoric, and, as always in these reductive and retrogressive yearnings, the brutal hand of Thanatos is all over the corpse.