Regressive

a.	1.
	1.	Passing back; returning.
	2.	Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism a - (Biol.) See Retrogression. b - (Physiol.) See Katabolism

Adj.	1.	regressive - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount increases Antonyms: progressive - (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount increases
	2.	regressive - opposing progress Antonyms: progressive - favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools"

apostate, ascending, atavistic, axial, back, back-flowing, backsliding, 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, lapsing, marcescent, mounting, passing, pining, plunging, reactionary, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, recrudescent, reflowing, refluent, relapsing, retroactive, retrocessive, retrograde, retrogressive, 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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