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See definition of regressive on Dictionary.com
  • as inmossbacked
  • as inreactionary
  • as inrecessive
  • as inretrogressive
  • as inreversed

synonyms for regressive

  • Tory
  • counterrevolutionary
  • die-hard
  • old-line
  • orthodox
  • retrogressive
  • right
  • rightist
  • rigid
  • standpat
  • traditional
  • traditionalistic
  • ultraconservative/ultra-conservative
  • archconservative
  • conservative
  • counterrevolutionary
  • right
  • rightist
  • ultraconservative
  • Tory
  • die-hard
  • hard hat
  • old-line
  • orthodox
  • retrogressive
  • rigid
  • standpat
  • traditional
  • traditionalistic
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How to use regressive in a sentence

Krishnan says the “regressive opposition” to his work “only strengthens my resolve.”
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Other concerns center on fuel taxes being regressive – having higher impacts on low-income communities.
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This crisis is particularly regressive—it’s regressive within countries, with the poorest segments of the population being hit.
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Many who remained felt that Lighthizer represented an old guard, with regressive views of how the economy should work.
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We certainly know that gambling on, for example, lottery tickets — highly regressive, especially scratch-off tickets.
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To advocate a moral standard higher for women than for men is regarded now as reactionary and regressive.
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Formal decay begins when a language becomes historical, and it often gives rise to remarkable cases of regressive metamorphosis.
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The two limits are then called the “progressive” and “regressive” differential coefficients.
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This influence, a form of regressive assimilation, is known as i-umlaut (pronounced om-lowt).
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Dream symbols are the most easily demonstrable, and after them, certain peculiarities of regressive dream representations.
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WORDS RELATED TO REGRESSIVE

  • behind the times
  • close-minded
  • conservative
  • conventional
  • dated
  • of the old school
  • old-fashioned
  • old-school
  • orthodox
  • out-of-date
  • outdated
  • passive
  • reactionary
  • regressive
  • retrogressive
  • traditional
  • uncreative
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