Synonyms of regressing

regressing 1 of 2

adjective

as in retrogressing

Related Words

• retrogressing
• receding
• stopped
• arrested
• halted
• ended
• stalled

Dissimilar Words

• proceeding
• operating
• ongoing
• functioning
• working
• happening
• alive
• going
• afoot
• afloat

regressing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of regress

1

as in reverting

to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level

in extreme circumstances, people sometimes regress to the behavior they exhibited in childhood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reverting
• returning
• declining
• retrogressing
• relapsing
• lapsing
• backsliding
• degenerating
• worsening
• falling
• ebbing
• throwing back
• dropping
• retrograding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• developing
• advancing
• evolving
• growing
• progressing
• maturing
• ripening

2

as in deteriorating

to become worse or of less value

the annual celebration has regressed to the point where it's nothing more than an excuse to get drunk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deteriorating
• worsening
• crumbling
• declining
• descending
• degenerating
• diminishing
• devolving
• decaying
• rotting
• sinking
• ebbing
• retrograding
• atrophying
• weakening
• disintegrating
• falling
• sagging
• decomposing
• receding
• slipping
• waning
• reducing
• degrading
• going to pot
• dwindling
• downsizing
• going to seed
• corrupting
• undermining
• souring
• putrefying
• lagging
• dilapidating
• lessening
• abating
• moldering
• spoiling
• debilitating
• failing
• languishing
• de-escalating
• lowering
• drooping
• flagging
• wasting (away)
• running down
• breaking down
• wilting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• ameliorating
• upgrading
• bettering
• developing
• enhancing
• progressing
• meliorating
• strengthening
• intensifying
• proceeding
• enriching
• advancing
• heightening
• fortifying
• marching

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of regressing

Verb

But as Saturday’s play showed, things have a way of evening out, regressing to the mean. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026

While the Colombia of 2026 is nowhere near as deadly as the Colombia of the 1990s, when the FARC was ruling over swaths of the country, the South American nation is nevertheless regressing in terms of security. — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026

This shifts hair follicles from regressing into active growth. — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 28 May 2026

Rafa Leao and Christian Pulisic were unsustainably clinical in the first half of the season, before regressing to the mean in a side bereft of chance creation in the second half of the campaign. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 12 May 2026

And when Varley returns to Portia after a stint with the manipulative and tempestuous Lady Penwood (Katie Leung), that’s not Bridgerton simply regressing to a status quo. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026

Spoelstra’s latest challenge to Ware came in mid-January, calling him out for regressing after his strong November stretch. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2026

Teachers at Sophia’s school told her parents that her reading skills were regressing, prompting them to order her glasses and schedule what seemed like routine tests. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026

In the face of that reality—the death, functionally, of the American dream—millennials, Gen Zers and Gen Alphaers have started fantasizing about the abolition of money, of technology, of progress entirely, to the point of dreaming about regressing away from humanity itself. — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025