Synonyms for regress
rɪˈgrɛs; ˈri grɛsregress

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1. regressverb

   Synonyms:
   backslide

   Antonyms:
   progress, proceed

2. regressverb

   To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.

   What is the progress or regress of man?

   Synonyms:
   backslide

   Antonyms:
   proceed, progress

3. regressverb

   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

   Antonyms:
   progress, proceed

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1. 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, retroversion

   Antonyms:
   get on, progress, come along, get along, shape up, come on, advance

2. regression, 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, retroflexion

   Antonyms:
   get on, come along, get along, come on, shape up, advance, progress

3. regressverb

   go back to a statistical means

   Synonyms:
   return, retrovert, relapse, retrograde, revert, retrogress, fall back, recidivate, turn back, lapse

   Antonyms:
   get along, come on, progress, advance, come along, shape up, get on

4. revert, 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, check

   Antonyms:
   progress, get on, shape up, come on, get along, come along, advance

5. regress, 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, rehash

   Antonyms:
   get on, come along, shape up, progress, advance, get along, come on

6. relapse, 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 back

   Antonyms:
   progress, advance, come along, get along, get on, come on, shape up

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Reasoning
   • Revert

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1. regressnoun

   Synonyms:
   return, retrocession, reflux, retrogression, refluence, ebb

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1. List of paraphrases for "regress":

   regression, retrogression, backspace

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1. REGRESS

   Synonyms:
   Regression Growth Evaluation Statin Study

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1. Tom Wind:

   You never want to see the data regress, but we remain optimistic that we're still on a long-term upward trajectory.

2. George Steiner:

   It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active 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.

3. Christen Kuikoua:

   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,

4. Rachel Denber:

   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.

5. George Steiner:

   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.