Synonyms of retrogress

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• revert
• return
• regress
• decline
• lapse
• relapse
• backslide
• degenerate
• fall
• ebb
• worsen
• throw back
• retrograde
• drop

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• develop
• advance
• evolve
• grow
• progress
• mature
• ripen

Example Sentences

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