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Meaning of "regressively" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REGRESSIVELY

regressively  [rɪˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REGRESSIVELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Regressively is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES REGRESSIVELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of regressively in the English dictionary

The first definition of regressively in the dictionary is in such a way as to be regressing or tending to regress or revert, as to a former place, condition, or mode of behaviour. Other definition of regressively is in such a way as to be of or relating to a tax or tax system that is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases. Regressively is also in such a way as to be of or relating to the adoption by an adult or adolescent of behaviour more appropriate to a child, esp as a defence mechanism to avoid anxiety.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REGRESSIVELY


aggressively
əˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
comprehensively
ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvlɪ
concessively
kənˈsɛsɪvlɪ
defensively
dɪˈfɛnsɪvlɪ
degressively
dɪˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
excessively
ɪkˈsesɪvlɪ
exclusively
ɪkˈskluːsɪvlɪ
expansively
ɪkˈspænsɪvlɪ
extensively
ɪkˈstɛnsɪvlɪ
impressively
ɪmˈprɛsɪvlɪ
intensively
ɪnˈtɛnsɪvlɪ
massively
ˈmæsɪvlɪ
obsessively
əbˈsɛsɪvlɪ
oppressively
əˈprɛsɪvlɪ
possessively
pəˈzɛsɪvlɪ
progressively
prəˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
repressively
rɪˈprɛsɪvlɪ
retrogressively
ˌrɛtrəʊˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
successively
səkˈsɛsɪvlɪ
transgressively
trænzˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REGRESSIVELY

regrede
regredience
regreen
regreet
regress
regression
regressive
regressive tax
regressiveness
regressivity
regressor
regret
regretful
regretfully
regretfulness
regrets
regrettable
regrettably
regretted
regretter

WORDS THAT END LIKE REGRESSIVELY

actively
alternatively
collaboratively
collectively
comparatively
competitively
creatively
cumulatively
effectively
inductively
lively
lovely
negatively
objectively
positively
qualitatively
quantitatively
relatively
respectively
selectively
tentatively

Synonyms and antonyms of regressively in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «regressively» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REGRESSIVELY

Find out the translation of regressively to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of regressively from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «regressively» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

退步
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

regresivamente
570 millions of speakers

English

regressively
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

regressively
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

regressively
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

регрессивно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

regressivamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

regressively
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

régressive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Regressively
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

regressiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

回帰的
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

regressively
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Regressively
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

regressively
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

regressively
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आग्रहाने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

regresif
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

regressivamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

regressively
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

регресивно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

regresiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατά φθίνουσα κλίμακα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

regressively
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

regressivt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

regressively
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of regressively

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REGRESSIVELY»

The term «regressively» is used very little and occupies the 158.863 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REGRESSIVELY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «regressively» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «regressively» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about regressively

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REGRESSIVELY»

Discover the use of regressively in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to regressively and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Maximum Truth & Truthful Maxims:
To devolve regressively from dance to sex, and to evolve progressively from sculpture to art. b. To devolve progressively from war to sport, and to evolve regressively from literature to music. 452a. To devolve regressively is a fall, whereas to ...
John O'Loughlin, 2010
2
Omega Maxims & Maximum Omega:
OMEGA MAXIMS 01. To progressively devolve, in 'falling fire', from eyes to heart, as from spatial space to repetitive time. 02. Conversely, to regressively devolve, in 'falling fire', from heart to eyes, as from repetitive time to spatial space. 03.
John O'Loughlin, 2010
3
The Maximum Truth Quartet
To devolve regressively from dance to sex, and to evolve progressively from sculpture to art. b. To devolve progressively from war to sport, and to evolve regressively from literature to music. 452a. To devolve regressively is a fall, whereas to ...
John O'Loughlin, 2011
4
Augustine to Freud
The need for rootedness pertains to the security of biological ties; it is satisfied progressively in the experience of the brotherhood of man and regressively in pathological fixation to the mother. The need for transcendence, or self- awareness, ...
Kenneth Boa, 2004
5
Bush Tax Cuts and the Economy
The Suits index is a measure of the progressivity of tax benefits and varies between -1 (completely regressive) and +1 (completely progressive).15 The Suits index is negative (and tax benefits are regressively distributed) if the benefits from the ...
Thomas L. Hungerford, 2011
6
Kitāb Fī Al-ālāt Al-falakīyah:
In this manner one avoids the confusion which would result from a superposition of similarly-oriented curves.24 Quadrants with irregular declination scales defined regressively Instead of proposing the construction of an horary quadrant with a ...
François Charette, 2003
7
The Mind of the Paedophile: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
In such cases, it is not, contrary to what Freud (1905d) maintained, the erotic experience per se that has been fixated and then regressively reanimated; instead, it is the early infantile function of the erotic experience that is retained and ...
Loretta R. Loeb, Charles W. Socarides, 2004
8
Essentials of Anatomic Pathology
... and increased T-cells) — Monocytoid B-cell hyperplasia expanding sinuses — Epithelioid histiocyte clusters — Increased plasma cells and polykaryocytes ( large multinucleated giant cells) in interfollicular zones 0 Late stage — Regressively ...
Liang Cheng, David G. Bostwick, 2011
9
A Grammar of Central Alaskan Yupik (CAY)
It is interesting to compare the regressively accentuated syllable /at/ in the first example ataata with the rhythmically accentuated open syllable /ta'/ in the second atata, whose nucleus is a full vowel. The former, which is closed by gemination, ...
Osahito Miyaoka, 2012
10
Product Liability
More generally, how well our rationales will appear to work depends on how far we follow the ripple effects of a legal rule. Of course, if we pursue the ripples of tort liability into the insurance pools we will find it operating regressively against ...
Jane Stapleton, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REGRESSIVELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term regressively is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Judged to be a racist name
It says that we can lumber regressively toward a proud "tradition" that was largely fantasy and anything but proud. The Confederate flag is, as we have written ... «Socialist Worker Online, Jul 15»
2
Decriminalise defamation
In an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court the Union Home Ministry has argued — rather regressively — in favour of keeping defamation a penal offence on ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
3
TV Review: Vicious returns direly in need of a fresh comic bite
The reviews of the first were mostly tepid, and one write-up by art critic Brian Sewell, himself an elderly gay man appalled by what he saw as regressively camp, ... «Herald, Jun 15»
4
Jailing Juveniles for the BJP's Joy
... sentenced as adults to twenty years in prison for "heinous offences", it has regressively plunged our nation into the darkness of 19th century jurisprudence. «NDTV, May 15»
5
National Labor Relations Board Attorneys' 'Progressive' View of …
The employer filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union alleging the union had unlawfully bargained regressively when it made new proposals ... «The National Law Review, Apr 15»
6
Column: Prop 1 is bad public policy
... in the attempt to take more money out of the pockets of everyday working people by convincing voters to regressively raise the state sales tax by 17 percent. «The Oakland Press, Apr 15»
7
Prop 1 is bad public policy
... in the attempt to take more money out of the pockets of everyday working people by convincing voters to regressively raise the state sales tax by 17 percent. «The Macomb Daily, Apr 15»
8
A New Phase in Tunisia's Transition
Tunisia may not be on the verge of a return to absolute authoritarianism, but the new government's discourse often seems regressively patrimonial. Tunisians ... «Carnegie Europe, Mar 15»
9
Right to Judicial Remedy is Open to Everyone: SC
State is not a hierarchy of regressively genuflecting coterie of bureaucracy,” the apex court has asserted. A two-member bench comprising Justice J ... «The New Indian Express, Oct 14»
10
Bureaucrat can't be victimized for crtiticising government: SC
... democratic republic is that every action of the State is to be informed with reason. State is not a hierarchy of regressively genuflecting coterie of bureaucracy." ... «Economic Times, Sep 14»

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