Definition for Retrogressive:

• Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.

Synonyms for Retrogressive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • retrograde,
  • retrogressive.
  •backward (adjective)
  • behind,
  • rearward,
  • astern,
  • regressive,
  • inverted.
  •degenerate (adjective)
  • de-generated,
  • in famous,
  • most flatitious,
  • more degenerated,
  • more flatitious,
  • de-based,
  • de-cadent,
  • de-graded,
  • in-famous,
  • more overripe,
  • more worsen,
  • more vitiated,
  • most demeaned,
  • most worsen,
  • de-generate,
  • more demeaned,
  • retro grade,
  • de based,
  • dis solute,
  • un-healthier,
  • un healthiest,
  • over ripe,
  • un healthy,
  • de cadent,
  • de graded,
  • un healthier,
  • most overripe,
  • retro-grade,
  • most degenerated,
  • infamous,
  • most vitiated,
  • de generate,
  • un-healthy,
  • un-healthiest,
  • dis-solute,
  • de generated.
  •reactionary (adjective)
  • old line,
  • oldline,
  • counter-revolutionary,
  • obscurantist,
  • standpat,
  • counterrevolutionary,
  • die hard,
  • old-line,
  • mossbacked.

• n.

  •
  • backward,
  • precede.
  •deteriorating (noun)
  • deteriorating.
  •failing (noun)
  • failing.
  •regressing (noun)
  • regressing.
  •retrogressive (noun)
  • declining.
  •worse (noun)
  • worst of all,
  • extraordinary,
  • for the worse.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • reversed.
  •worse
  • inferior,
  • pale,
  • impoverished,
  • sugar-coated,
  • worst,
  • worse.

Paraphrases for Retrogressive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    regressive, retrograde.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    deteriorating, Deteriorated, underdeveloped, degraded.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    backward-looking, reactionary, backward, outdated.

Antonyms for Retrogressive:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    progressive.

Retrogressive Sentence Examples:

• The ideas, the modes, the surroundings, appeared retrogressive and unmeaning.

• The present is always holding in solution the elements of the future and the past, in fact; and whilst Zola still lived, in the moments of his highest activity, the love and hate, the intelligence and ignorance, of his motives and his work were as evident, and were as accurately the measure of progressive and retrogressive criticism, as they will be hereafter in any of the literary periods to come.