REGRESSIVE Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

regressive

adjective

Definition of regressive next

as in decremental

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Recent Examples of regressive Thus, the system is regressive for them on both the front and back ends — the burden of the original high tariffs and now the denial of rebates to compensate them. —

Robert Hormats, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026 And sources of public funding can be brutally regressive, derived from taxes on items like lottery tickets, which are bought disproportionately by the poor. —

Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026 There is a reasonable argument to be made that nostalgia, particularly current decisions informed by nostalgia, are by their nature regressive and should be discouraged. —

Nick Miller, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026 High costs and low ridership have pushed the transit authority to threaten major service cuts – unless wary voters approve a regressive tax hike in November. —

Editorial Board, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for regressive

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degressive

Adjective

Three frames from a video (below) showing a 70 kg climber ascending a 3.7 m vertical glass surface using a synthetic adhesion system with degressive load-sharing and gecko-inspired adhesives.

— Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2014

Definition of degressive