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Thesaurus: retrogressive
Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
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Definitions
- a. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
- a. Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.
- adj. going from better to worse
- 1. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state. 2. (Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.
- Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from amore perfect state of organization; regressive.
- j:100 s going from better to worse