regressive
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7.5
- adjective
- /rɪˈɡrɛsɪv/
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retrógrado
- Some argue that increasing sales taxes is a regressive move that disproportionately impacts low-income families.
I mean, it's just sexist, regressive nonsense anyway.
- I mean, it's just sexist, regressive nonsense anyway.
- I would push back on that because they wouldn't identify as being regressive.
- And I think the, an interesting aspect with older people is that they appear as being regressive and backward.
- So they don't then realise that they've become quite regressive in their quest to be progressive, which is very, it's very interesting.
- and any kind of regressive movement. We're not regressing to
- You're you're expected to affirm the orthodoxy of these regressive racial sort of quotas and things like this.
- Maajid Nawaz from the island here calls it regressive leftism applied postmodernism from Helen Pluck Rose.
- And it just seems like the burden of this always falls on the left to go sit down with the dip shits and have regressive conversations.
- We this is the most regressive, cruel caveman victimhood titty baby movement I've ever seen.
- You know, neither the utopian or neither the progressive nor the regressive and the absence of an actual, of an actual terror of actual place.
Examples
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The Houston episode had been a regressive experience.
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In spite of the council's lack of fiscal integrity, the proposed amendment was in most respects a regressive measure.
Academic text (1999) -
A new gas tax is regressive and especially harmful during a slow economy.
Blog text (9) -
Barriers set relationships on a regressive course that leads to isolation.
Blog text (29) -
Don't you see how regressive this film is?
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It's actually regressive, going back to the way the world was before these principles flourished in America.
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In the early 1980s, a major financial crisis accentuated the regressive effects of the reforms introduced in the 1970s.
Academic text (1999) -
The change he (or his inventors) advocated was regressive rather than progressive.
Blog text (4) -
Identifying the essence of Swedishness with a pastoral idyll often implies nostalgia and a regressive attitude toward much that characterizes the modern world.
Academic text (1998) -
The new policy was criticized for being regressive and setting back years of social progress.
Synonyms
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3.5
Less developed than other places, especially in education or the economy
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8.3
A change that makes things go back to a worse state
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7.8
Becoming worse and returning to an earlier state
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8.0
Old-fashioned and not open to change
Tending to make something return to an earlier state
Not willing to accept new ideas and slow to change
Not wanting political or social changes
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
A set of left-leaning policies that critics see as moving society backward
How Regressive
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8.4
5
7.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Regressive comes from the parts re- meaning 'back' and gress meaning 'step' or 'move', the same root you see in progress. So regressive describes something that 'steps back' or moves to an earlier, less advanced state, which is why it means opposing progress.