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Regressive   /rəgrˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Regressive

adjective
1.
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases.
2.
Opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state.





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"Regressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... suggest itself that the direct contrary is the truth; since, even in rural industry, though more tardily improving its processes than manufacturing industry, the tendency is always in that direction: agriculture, as an art benefiting by experience, has never yet been absolutely regressive, though not progressive by such striking leaps or sudden discoveries as manufacturing art. But, for all that, it still remains true, as a general principle, that raw materials won from the soil are constantly tending to grow dearer, whilst these same materials as worked up for use by ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... retrograde, retrogressive, reverse, regressive; retrospective; reluctant, averse, loath, disinclined, unwilling; dull, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... 16th I started back to Winchester, whence I could better supervise our regressive march. As I was passing through Newtown, I heard cannonading from the direction of Front Royal, and on reaching Winchester, Merritt's couriers brought me word that he had been attacked at the crossing of the Shenandoah by Kershaw's division ...
— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. I., Part 3 • P. H. Sheridan


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