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adjective

Retrogressive adj.

Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

(Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.

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Etymology of 'Retrogressive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Retrogressive" Quotes from Famous Books

... dissolve, and religious fanaticisms begotten of despair gleam in famine-bright eyes. It is a universal dissolution. The fine order and welfare of the earth have crumpled like an exploded bladder. In five short years the world and the scope of human life have undergone a retrogressive change as great as that between the age of the Antonines and the Europe of the ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... imperious demand and what quickly followed was to force a war, no one can doubt. Servia's nearly complete assent to the conditions imposed was declared to be not only unsatisfactory, but also "dishonorable," a word doubtless deliberately used. Evidently no door was to be left open for retrogressive consideration. ...

— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall