Associations to the word «Regressive»
Noun
- Contrast
- Impact
- Increase
- Outcome
- Wage
- Rights
- Preference
- Barrier
- Rich
- Bore
- Fantasy
- Rent
- Hypothesis
- Gender
- Nature
- Critic
- Efficiency
- Thrust
- Economics
- Supporter
- Reduction
- Proposal
- Therapy
- Aid
- Fee
- Deposit
- Anxiety
- Phase
- Change
- Identification
- Succession
- Cave
- Regard
- Dialect
- Slavery
- Characteristic
- Phenomenon
- Effect
- Poverty
- Disorder
- Continental
- Virus
- Patient
- Jordan
- Insurance
- Process
- Zone
- Amount
- Index
- Argument
- System
- Plain
- Affect
- Sum
- Security
- Left
- Basin
- Theory
- Classification
- Adaptation
- Myth
- Contribution
- Mechanism
- Philosophy
- Reform
Adjective
Wiktionary
REGRESSIVE, adjective. That tends to return, revert or regress.
REGRESSIVE, adjective. (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
Dictionary definition
REGRESSIVE, adjective. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases.
REGRESSIVE, adjective. Opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.