regress
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See also: Regress
Etymology
(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”).
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (verb) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹɛs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
regress (countable and uncountable, plural regresses)
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
- 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books:
- Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.
- (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
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Derived terms
Verb
regress (third-person singular simple present regresses, present participle regressing, simple past and past participle regressed)
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.(clarification of this definition is needed)
- (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.
- (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
- 2018, Michael Brein, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness:
- They regressed me, putting me under hypnosis. Then, through the hypnosis, they found out that our car was abducted right off the road and into a craft.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
to move backwards to an earlier stage
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Related terms
Further reading
- “regress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “regress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “regress”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Etymology
From Latin regressus (“back step”), from re- (“back”) + gressus (“step”).
Noun
regress
Declension
| nominative | regress |
|---|---|
| genitive | regressniñ |
| dative | regresske |
| accusative | regressni |
| locative | regresste |
| ablative | regressten |
Declension of regress
References
- Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
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