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Synonyms for regress
rɪˈgrɛs; ˈri grɛsregress
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Wiktionary
regressverb
Synonyms:
backslideregressverb
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
What is the progress or regress of man?
Synonyms:
backslideregressverb
To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.
Synonyms:
backslide
Princeton's WordNet
regress, reasoning backwardnoun
the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
Synonyms:
reversion, retrogression, reasoning backward, regression, retroversionAntonyms:
get on, progress, come along, get along, shape up, come on, advanceregression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversionverb
returning to a former state
Synonyms:
infantile fixation, lapse, simple regression, reversal, regression toward the mean, fixation, turnaround, arrested development, relapsing, retrogression, retroflection, reasoning backward, backsliding, lapsing, throwback, regression, reverse, atavism, turnabout, reverting, relapse, statistical regression, retroversion, degeneration, reversion, retroflexionAntonyms:
get on, come along, get along, come on, shape up, advance, progressregressverb
go back to a statistical means
Synonyms:
return, retrovert, relapse, retrograde, revert, retrogress, fall back, recidivate, turn back, lapseAntonyms:
get along, come on, progress, advance, come along, shape up, get onrevert, return, retrovert, regress, turn backverb
go back to a previous state
"We reverted to the old rules"
Synonyms:
reelect, bring back, drive off, retrovert, return, retrograde, reverse, deliver, hold back, recall, refund, hark back, give back, rejoin, invert, drive out, devolve, repay, turn back, come back, relapse, retort, fall, riposte, recidivate, fall back, give, drive away, take back, stop, pass, render, retrogress, lapse, arrest, yield, chase away, dispel, contain, double back, generate, revert, backtrack, run off, checkAntonyms:
progress, get on, shape up, come on, get along, come along, advanceregress, retrograde, retrogressverb
get worse or fall back to a previous condition
Synonyms:
return, retreat, retrovert, relapse, retrograde, hash over, revert, retrogress, fall back, recidivate, turn back, lapse, rehashAntonyms:
get on, come along, shape up, progress, advance, get along, come onrelapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb
go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Synonyms:
go along, lapse, slip away, recidivate, backslide, retrogress, lag, retrovert, elapse, dawdle, revert, fall back, fall behind, sink, lose, glide by, retrograde, resort, pass, return, slide by, recede, drop off, relapse, slip by, go by, get worse, recur, turn backAntonyms:
progress, advance, come along, get along, get on, come on, shape up
Dictionary of English Synonymes
regressnoun
Synonyms:
return, retrocession, reflux, retrogression, refluence, ebb
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "regress":
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
REGRESS
Synonyms:
Regression Growth Evaluation Statin Study
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#357 | return | |
#555 | give | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1864 | resort | |
#2700 | contain | |
#3169 | lose | |
#3338 | deliver | |
#3815 | reverse | |
#3965 | generate | |
#4557 | yield | |
#4982 | refund | |
#5370 | recall | |
#7229 | sink | |
#7523 | arrest | |
#8206 | retreat | |
#8636 | regression | |
#9759 | render | |
#14447 | lag | |
#15621 | reversal | |
#17866 | turnaround | |
#19016 | repay | |
#20021 | revert | |
#20635 | fixation | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#23078 | degeneration | |
#25141 | relapse | |
#31016 | throwback | |
#32379 | invert | |
#38684 | retrograde | |
#39147 | regress | |
#40623 | dispel | |
#40939 | reversion | |
#44630 | retort | |
#44872 | backspace | |
#46382 | recur | |
#49630 | rejoin | |
#52350 | reverting | |
#63313 | backtrack | |
#63983 | recede | |
#66409 | rehash | |
#72536 | elapse | |
#75553 | relapsing | |
#83252 | devolve | |
#100874 | turnabout | |
#109967 | riposte | |
#111234 | lapsing | |
#114563 | backsliding | |
#158119 | retrogression | |
#188723 | reelect | |
#218314 | dawdle | |
#233972 | backslide | |
#248648 | atavism |
How to use regress in a sentence?
I don't think it's fair to expect countries to have perfect transitions overnight, or maybe even in 24 years (since Soviet disintegration in the region, in 1991). But I do think it's fair to expect them to not regress significantly.
Crimes, racism, and rape, Just to name a Few Violence Against Christians, a war to reshape. And yet, in God we trust, they dare profess, What God is this, with such moral regress? Tell me, people, tell me, world so wide, What God is this, where sins abide? For the God I know rejects abomination,
You never want to see the data regress, but we remain optimistic that we're still on a long-term upward trajectory.
Nothing exists forever in one shape or another. You say existence – you say transformation, evolution and regress.
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.
Translations for regress
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- تراجعArabic
- retrocederSpanish
- قهقرا رفتنPersian
- grįžimasLithuanian
- назадуваMacedonian
- teruggaanDutch
- regredirPortuguese
- regresaRomanian
- регрессироватьRussian
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