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retrogressive a. 倒退的,退化的,退步的 倒退的,退化的,退步的 retrogressive adj 1: going from better to worse [ synonym: { retrograde}, { retrogressive}] Retrogressive \ Re` tro* gres" sive\, a. [ Cf. F. r[' e] trogressif.] 1. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive. [ 1913 Webster] 83 Moby Thesaurus words for " retrogressive": ascending, atavistic, axial, back, back- flowing, backward, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, degenerate, descending, deteriorating, disintegrating, down- trending, downward, draining, drifting, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, flagging, flowing, fluent, flying, fragmenting, going, going to pieces, gyrational, gyratory, languishing, marcescent, mounting, passing, pining, plunging, progressive, reactionary, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retroactive, retrocessive, retrograde, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revulsionary, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, shriveling, sideward, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, soaring, streaming, subsiding, tabetic, up- trending, upward, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening
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