RETROGRESS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

retrogress

verb

ˌre-trə-ˈgres

as in to revert

to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level the quality of research at the university lab has begun to retrogress since the massive budget cuts went into effect

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Recent Examples of retrogress This annual limit, and the intense global demand has created significant back logs, particularly for applicants from India and China, whose EB-2 priority dates have continually retrogressed. —

Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026 After the 1960s, after the switch in—the shift in the strategy to gaining political clout, a lot of those trends stalled, slowed, even retrogressed. —

WSJ, 3 July 2017

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That also means that either reverting BIOS settings or performing an OS reset is possible.

— John Burek, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
The Huskers took a brief pause from their doldrums to summon up a home win against Minnesota only to revert back to losing, dropping four more in a row.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026