0 returning to a previous and less advanced or worse state or way of behaving:
Incinerating waste rather than recycling it would be a regressive step.
Vigilance is needed to overcome the natural regressive tendency to become complacent.
18 patients had active leprosy, and in 27 the disease was regressive.
Regressive behaviour - bed-wetting, throwing tantrums, waking in the night - is common.
Separation anxiety, regressive symptoms, and psychosomatic manifestations are frequently associated with PTSD .
Most autism is regressive.
An association was found between regressive autism and bowel problems.
1 (of tax) lower on large amounts of money, so that the rich are less affected:
2 used to describe ideas or systems that are old-fashioned and do not encourage change or development:
The movement will defeat the autocratic and regressive regime.
3 used to describe an economic or tax system in which there are advantages for rich people and disadvantages for poor people:
A further point of note is that some significant cross regressive terms were positively weighted.
Regressive events such as cell death and the elimination of long axon collaterals and dendritic processes are essential mechanisms of brain maturation.
Regressive forms may give us part of the key to reallocation of function in the nervous system.
Paradoxically, then, social democracy, when combined with high levels of corporatism, ends up using a regressive form of taxation more than we would expect.
As the relative tax rate on unskilled labor increases along the horizontal axis, the tax system becomes more regressive.
Overgeneralization errors are sometimes referred to as recidivisms, regressive overgeneralizations or hypercorrections.
We therefore should observe that social democratic governments are less likely to promote regressive forms of taxation.
They need to support the welfare state by relying upon a fundamentally regressive policy instrument: indirect taxation.
