Associations to the word «Regress»

Wiktionary

REGRESS, noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
REGRESS, noun. The power or liberty of passing back.
REGRESS, verb. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
REGRESS, verb. (transitive) (statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

Dictionary definition

REGRESS, noun. The reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence.
REGRESS, noun. Returning to a former state.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a statistical means.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".
REGRESS, verb. Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.
REGRESS, verb. Go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King