regress
verb
• return to a former or less developed state.
• "they would not regress to pre-technological tribalism"
Similar:
revert,
retrogress,
relapse,
lapse,
backslide,
go backwards,
slip back,
drift back,
subside,
sink back,
deteriorate,
decline,
worsen,
degenerate,
get worse,
fall,
fall off,
fall away,
drop,
ebb,
wane,
slump,
go downhill,
go to pot,
go to the dogs,
recidivate,
retrograde,
• calculate the coefficient or coefficients of regression of (a variable) against or on another variable.
• "a model in which C and Y are regressed on the same variables"
• move in a retrograde direction.
• "a planet regularly regresses"
regress
noun
• the action of returning to a former or less developed state.
• "the regress is a return to Puritan values"
• a series of statements in which a logical procedure is continually reapplied to its own result without approaching a useful conclusion (e.g. defining something in terms of itself).
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin regressus, from regredi ‘go back, return’, from re- ‘back’ + gradi ‘to walk’.
