Word Meanings - RETROGRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Retrogression. H. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETROGRESS)

• Relapse Retrogress
• recede
• deteriorate

Related words: (words related to RETROGRESS)

• RETROGRESS
  Retrogression. H. Spenser.
• RELAPSE
  To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide. They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse. Waterland. (more info) 1. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• DETERIORATE
  To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey. (more info) deteriorate, fr. deterior worse, prob. a comparative fr. de down,
• RETROGRESSION
  Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also
• RELAPSER
  One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
• RETROGRESSIVELY
  In a retrogressive manner.
• RETROGRESSIVE
  Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive. (more info) 1. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• PRECEDE
  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the
• PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
  1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
• PRECEDENTIAL
  Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
• UNPRECEDENTED
  Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. -- Un*prec"e*dent*ed*ly, adv.
• PRECEDENT
  Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. Shak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent , a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.