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Definition of Regress
1. Noun. The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.
2. Verb. Go back to a statistical means.
3. Noun. Returning to a former state.
Generic synonyms: Reversal
Derivative terms: Retrogress, Retrovert, Revert
4. Verb. Go back to a previous state. "We reverted to the old rules"
Specialized synonyms: Fall Back, Lapse, Recidivate, Relapse, Retrogress, Resile, Go Back, Recover, Recuperate
Generic synonyms: Change By Reversal, Reverse, Turn
Derivative terms: Regression, Retroversion, Return, Reversion, Reversive, Reverting
5. Verb. Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.
Generic synonyms: Decline, Worsen
Specialized synonyms: Drop Off, Fall Back, Fall Behind, Lose, Recede
Antonyms: Progress
Derivative terms: Regressive, Retrogression, Retrogressive
6. Verb. Go back to bad behavior. "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Generic synonyms: Retrovert, Return, Revert, Turn Back
Derivative terms: Lapse, Recidivism, Relapse, Relapsing
Definition of Regress
1. n. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
2. v. i. To go back; to return to a former place or state.
Definition of Regress
1. Noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. ¹
2. Noun. The power or liberty of passing back. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Regress
1. to go back [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Medical Definition of Regress
1. To return or go back. For example, if a 5-year-old child begins to regress (and function like a much younger child), that is worrisome. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Regress
Literary usage of Regress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Thus I cannot infer the magnitude of the regress from the quantity or magnitude
of the world, and determine the former by means of the latter; ..."
2. Some Dogmas of Religion by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (1906)
"If we are to be so sceptical about causes, we shall have no right to believe that
every event must have a cause, or that an endless regress of causes is ..."
3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"But the regress itself is really nothing more than the determining of the cosmical
quantity, and cannot therefore give us any determined conception of ..."
4. Farm Contracts Between Landlord and Tenant by William Collett Tichenor (1916)
"Ingress and Egress—regress. The right of ingress and egress is the right to go
in and ... regress is the right to return after the expiration of the term. ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"But the regress itself is really nothing more than the determining of the cosmical
quantity, and cannot therefore give us any determined conception of ..."
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