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Definition of Regressive

1. Adjective. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases.

2. Adjective. Opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state.

Definition of Regressive

1. a. Passing back; returning.

Definition of Regressive

1. Adjective. That tends to return, revert or regress. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Regressive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Regressive

1. 1. Passing back; returning. 2. Characterised by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. See Catabolism. Origin: Cf. F. Regressif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regressive

regressing regressing atypical histiocytosis regression regression analysis regression coefficient regression curve regression equation regression line regression of the mean regression of y on x

regression to the mean regression toward the mean regression tree regressional regressions regressive (current term) regressive-reconstructive approach regressive staining regressively regressiveness

regressivities regressivity regressor regressors regret regretable regretful regretfully regretfulness regretfulnesses

Literary usage of Regressive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"PROGRESSIVE AND regressive MULTIPLICATION. (1) According to the laws of ... If p + (T > v, the product SfS, will be formed according to the regressive law. ..."

2. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"regressive selection may be produced either by the cessation or by the ... regressive election arises when any tradition or acquired character that has long ..."

3. Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"regressive selection may be produced either by the cessation or by the ... regressive election arises when any tradition or acquired character that has long ..."

4. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1900)
"The regressive staining method will form the subject of the present chapter, ... General Directions for the regressive Staining Method, as applied to ..."

5. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1913)
"Most of the basin tar colours used for regressive staining will also give by the progressive ... The Practice of regressive Staining : The Staining Bath. ..."

6. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1903)
"The majority give a diffuse stain, which in some few cases becomes, by the application of the regressive or indirect method (§ 199), a most precise and ..."

7. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1913)
"Most of the basic tar colours used for regressive staining will also give by the progressive ... The Practice of regressive Staining : The Staining Bath. ..."

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