Meaning of "regress" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REGRESS

From Latin regressus a retreat, from regredī to go back, from re- + gradī to go.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF REGRESS

regress  [rɪˈɡrɛs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REGRESS

Regress is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb regress in English.

WHAT DOES REGRESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Regress

Regress may refer to: ▪ Regress argument, a problem in epistemology concerning the justification of propositions ▪ Infinite regress...

Definition of regress in the English dictionary

The first definition of regress in the dictionary is to return or revert, as to a former place, condition, or mode of behaviour. Other definition of regress is to measure the extent to which is associated with one or more independent variables. Regress is also the act of regressing.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO REGRESS

PRESENT

Present

I regress

you regress

he/she/it regresses

we regress

you regress

they regress

Present continuous

I am regressing

you are regressing

he/she/it is regressing

we are regressing

you are regressing

they are regressing

Present perfect

I have regressed

you have regressed

he/she/it has regressed

we have regressed

you have regressed

they have regressed

Present perfect continuous

I have been regressing

you have been regressing

he/she/it has been regressing

we have been regressing

you have been regressing

they have been regressing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I regressed

you regressed

he/she/it regressed

we regressed

you regressed

they regressed

Past continuous

I was regressing

you were regressing

he/she/it was regressing

we were regressing

you were regressing

they were regressing

Past perfect

I had regressed

you had regressed

he/she/it had regressed

we had regressed

you had regressed

they had regressed

Past perfect continuous

I had been regressing

you had been regressing

he/she/it had been regressing

we had been regressing

you had been regressing

they had been regressing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will regress

you will regress

he/she/it will regress

we will regress

you will regress

they will regress

Future continuous

I will be regressing

you will be regressing

he/she/it will be regressing

we will be regressing

you will be regressing

they will be regressing

Future perfect

I will have regressed

you will have regressed

he/she/it will have regressed

we will have regressed

you will have regressed

they will have regressed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been regressing

you will have been regressing

he/she/it will have been regressing

we will have been regressing

you will have been regressing

they will have been regressing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would regress

you would regress

he/she/it would regress

we would regress

you would regress

they would regress

Conditional continuous

I would be regressing

you would be regressing

he/she/it would be regressing

we would be regressing

you would be regressing

they would be regressing

Conditional perfect

I would have regress

you would have regress

he/she/it would have regress

we would have regress

you would have regress

they would have regress

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been regressing

you would have been regressing

he/she/it would have been regressing

we would have been regressing

you would have been regressing

they would have been regressing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you regress
we let´s regress
you regress

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to regress

Past participle

regressed

Present Participle

regressing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «REGRESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «regress» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of regress

backslide · degenerate · deteriorate · ebb · fall back · go back · lapse · recede · relapse · retreat · retrocede · retrogress · return · revert · wane

TRANSLATION OF REGRESS

Find out the translation of regress to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of regress from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «regress» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 退步
• Translator English - Spanish: involucionar
• English: regress
• Translator English - Hindi: निकासी
• Translator English - Arabic: التراجع
• Translator English - Russian: регрессировать
• Translator English - Portuguese: regredir
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রত্যাবর্তন
• Translator English - French: régresser
• Translator English - Malay: Kemunduran
• Translator English - German: sich zurückentwickeln
• Translator English - Japanese: 後戻りする
• Translator English - Korean: 퇴보하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Regress
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đi trở lại
• Translator English - Tamil: பின்னடைந்து
• Translator English - Marathi: पलटवणे
• Translator English - Turkish: gerileme
• Translator English - Italian: regredire
• Translator English - Polish: regres
• Translator English - Ukrainian: регресувати
• Translator English - Romanian: regres
• Translator English - Greek: οπισθοδρόμηση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: agteruitgang
• Translator English - Swedish: regress
• Translator English - Norwegian: regress

4 QUOTES WITH «REGRESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word regress.

1

Seth MacFarlane

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.

2

Jenny McCarthy

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

3

Marcel Proust

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

4

R. A. Salvatore

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REGRESS»

Discover the use of regress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to regress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Infinite Regress: The Theory and History of Varieties of Change

Some of the other chapters in this book focus on world class philosophers including Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Bertrand Russell.

Nicholas Rescher, 2011

Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp, 1910-1941

An examination of the multiple identities and practices of Marcel Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941 takes into account underacknowledged works and focuses on the conjunction of the machine and the commodity in the artist's art, ...

David Joselit, 2001

The Pilgrim's Regress

The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regress is, in a sense, the record of Lewis's own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction—a search that eventually led him to Christianity.

C. S. Lewis, 2014

Infinite Regress Arguments

does not logically exclude the fact that we implicitly use statements that are independent of both the regress formula and the regress to establish the absurdities. The first step of the first regress, 1>2, is necessarily false because by definition ...

Claude Gratton, 2009

Epistemology and the Regress Problem

is a regress of H's transmission as a “dependent property” established by one entity having H in virtue of another having H (712). Regresses such as these are vicious, because there is no explanatory weight to any part of the chain. Gillett asks ...

Scott Aikin, 2011

The Silicon Man

James Bayley, an investigator for the High Technology Crime division of the FBI, investigates LifeScan, a secret project that has embezzled millions of dollars in public funds to create a detailed cyberspace that offers virtual immortality

Charles Platt, 1993

Regress

Corinda is back!

Earliecia J. Ebron, 2012

Kant's Critiques: The Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique ...

void, on which our continued regress by means of perception must abut—which is impossible. Now this proposition, which declares that every condition attained in the empirical regress must itself be considered empirically conditioned, ...

Immanuel Kant, 2008

Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, ...

I Infinite regress and foundations of mathematics* INTRODUCTION [Sceptical philosophy has been teaching for more than two thousand years that it is impossible to achieve either the aim of conclusively establishing meaning or the aim of ...

Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie, 1980

Work in regress

Work in Regress, Peter Reading's first new collection since the recently published two volume Collected Poems, shows the controversial bard in true, headstrong style, turning against the idea of poetry being worth anything in the modern ...

Peter Reading, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REGRESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term regress is used in the context of the following news items.

49ers OC: Colin Kaepernick 'didn't regress' as much as perceived

That's the big question facing Chryst and first-year coach Jim Tomsula, who said in March that Kaepernick not only didn't regress in '14, but he had his best ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»

Don't Expect Peyton Manning to Regress in 2015

After the less-than-stellar end to Peyton Manning's 2014 season, it's not totally unreasonable to assume the downward trend will continue into the 2015 ... «RantSports, Jul 15»

MythBusters: Is Peyton Manning's regression bound to continue in '15?

In our "MythBusters" series, SI.com's Doug Farrar uses tape, statistics and conversations with some of the NFL's most knowledgeable voices to debunk storylines ... «SI.com, Jul 15»

Mailbag: Are People Picking This Team To Regress? Starting Randle?

Why are so many people picking the Cowboys to regress this year? Is this team just the easy pick because of the loss of DeMarco Murray? I see a slight setback ... «DallasCowboys.com, Jul 15»

Willian the Chelsea star of the day, as Cuadrado and Falcao regress …

The 2015 Copa América wrapped up its group stage today with a double-header of Chelsea interest with Colombia and Brazil both in action. From 12 teams ... «We Ain't Got No History, Jun 15»

The Broncos will regress, miss playoffs in 2015

With Peyton Manning one year older, a new coaching staff and a roster full of question marks, expect the Denver Broncos to regress in 2015. «FanSided, May 15»

Malaysia uses specious terrorism threat to regress on human rights

The ostensible justification for this stark anti-democratic regression is the perceived threat posed by Malaysian Muslims who support Islamic State. Police say 92 ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»

TPPA – let's sign up and progress, not regress – Ramon Navaratnam

The minister of international trade and industry, YB Dato' Seri Mustapa Mohd and YB Senator Abdul Wahid Omar, the minister in the Prime Minister's Department ... «The Malaysian Insider, Apr 15»

Will 2014's breakout players repeat their star seasons or regress in …

With the start of the 2015 major league baseball season now less than a week away, we wanted to take a look at some of 2014's breakout players to see how ... «SI.com, Mar 15»

When my spouse is away, I regress to a beer- and pizza-stained …

When my spouse is away, I regress to a beer- and pizza-stained college kid. Jeb Lund. The performative rebellion that comes with having the house to myself is ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»