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Meaning of "retrogress" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RETROGRESS

From Latin retrōgressus having moved backwards, from retrōgradī.

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

PRONUNCIATION OF RETROGRESS

ˌrɛtrəʊˈɡrɛs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RETROGRESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Retrogress is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb retrogress in English.

WHAT DOES RETROGRESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of retrogress in the English dictionary

The first definition of retrogress in the dictionary is to go back to an earlier, esp worse, condition; degenerate or deteriorate. Other definition of retrogress is to move backwards; recede. Retrogress is also to develop characteristics or features of lower or simpler organisms; degenerate.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RETROGRESS

PRESENT

Present
I retrogress
you retrogress
he/she/it retrogresses
we retrogress
you retrogress
they retrogress
Present continuous
I am retrogressing
you are retrogressing
he/she/it is retrogressing
we are retrogressing
you are retrogressing
they are retrogressing
Present perfect
I have retrogressed
you have retrogressed
he/she/it has retrogressed
we have retrogressed
you have retrogressed
they have retrogressed
Present perfect continuous
I have been retrogressing
you have been retrogressing
he/she/it has been retrogressing
we have been retrogressing
you have been retrogressing
they have been retrogressing
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 retrogressed
you retrogressed
he/she/it retrogressed
we retrogressed
you retrogressed
they retrogressed
Past continuous
I was retrogressing
you were retrogressing
he/she/it was retrogressing
we were retrogressing
you were retrogressing
they were retrogressing
Past perfect
I had retrogressed
you had retrogressed
he/she/it had retrogressed
we had retrogressed
you had retrogressed
they had retrogressed
Past perfect continuous
I had been retrogressing
you had been retrogressing
he/she/it had been retrogressing
we had been retrogressing
you had been retrogressing
they had been retrogressing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will retrogress
you will retrogress
he/she/it will retrogress
we will retrogress
you will retrogress
they will retrogress
Future continuous
I will be retrogressing
you will be retrogressing
he/she/it will be retrogressing
we will be retrogressing
you will be retrogressing
they will be retrogressing
Future perfect
I will have retrogressed
you will have retrogressed
he/she/it will have retrogressed
we will have retrogressed
you will have retrogressed
they will have retrogressed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been retrogressing
you will have been retrogressing
he/she/it will have been retrogressing
we will have been retrogressing
you will have been retrogressing
they will have been retrogressing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would retrogress
you would retrogress
he/she/it would retrogress
we would retrogress
you would retrogress
they would retrogress
Conditional continuous
I would be retrogressing
you would be retrogressing
he/she/it would be retrogressing
we would be retrogressing
you would be retrogressing
they would be retrogressing
Conditional perfect
I would have retrogress
you would have retrogress
he/she/it would have retrogress
we would have retrogress
you would have retrogress
they would have retrogress
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been retrogressing
you would have been retrogressing
he/she/it would have been retrogressing
we would have been retrogressing
you would have been retrogressing
they would have been retrogressing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you retrogress
we let´s retrogress
you retrogress
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to retrogress
Past participle
retrogressed
Present Participle
retrogressing
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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RETROGRESS

address · aggress · compress · congress · digress · distress · dress · egress · express · Flores · impress · ingress · interesse · press · progress · redigress · regress · stress · suppress · transgress

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RETROGRESS

retroflected · retroflection · retroflex · retroflexed · retroflexion · retrogradation · retrograde · retrograde amnesia · retrograde canon · retrogradely · retrogression · retrogressional · retrogressive · retrogressively · retroject · retrojection · retrolental · retromingency · retromingent · retronym

WORDS THAT END LIKE RETROGRESS

A-line dress · act of congress · actress · African National Congress · at the press · cocktail dress · contact address · Continental Congress · in progress · Indian National Congress · IP address · Library of Congress · Member of Congress · Negress · ogress · onward progress · Pan-Africanist Congress · tigress · Trades Union Congress · work-in-progress

Synonyms and antonyms of retrogress in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RETROGRESS»

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

Translation of «retrogress» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF RETROGRESS

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

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

Translator English - Chinese

倒退
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

retroceder
570 millions of speakers
en

English

retrogress
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

retrogress
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تراجعا
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

регресс
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

retrogress
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পশ্চাদ্দিকে চলা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

rétrograder
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mundur
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

retrogress
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

逆行する
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

retrogress
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Mundur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

suy đồi
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

retrogress
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मागे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yozlaşmak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

regredire
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

retrogress
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

регрес
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

regresa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παλινδρομώ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agteruit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

retrogress
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

retrogress
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of retrogress

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RETROGRESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of retrogress
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «retrogress».

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETROGRESS»

Discover the use of retrogress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to retrogress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Reading Teacher's Word-a-Day: 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons ...
Retrogress means to go backward. Your health can make progress and go forward and improve, or it can retrogress and go backward and get worse. Retrogress means the same as regress. Both prefixes, retro- and re-, mean “back ”: “The ...
Edward B. Fry, Ph.D., 2008
2
Grimpil's Retrogress: Portucal
Arriving in Oporto to select a port wine for his college, staid Englishman Horace Grimpil soon finds himself embroiled in the conflicting interests of the British and Portuguese communities, where he is an ignorant outsider.
Tawny De Cypher, 2008
3
Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder
years, buildings have had to be retrofitted to make them accessible to wheelchair users and other disabled persons. retrogress \re-trō-౹gres\ To return to an earlier and usually worse or more primitive state. ○ According to the tests, the ...
Mary W. Cornog, 1993
4
Whatever is,is right.
Can the Soul retrogress? If the soul can retrogress it does not possess the property of eternal progress, for repeated retrogressions would carry it back where its identity commenced, and thus its identity would be lost, whereby its progress ...
A.B.Child ,M.D., 1860
5
Buddhist Sects in India
Buddhaghosa points out that this opinion is held by one section of the Mahasahghikas and not by all, and so Vasumitra may have referred to the views " of that section, according to whom, the Arhats may retrogress but not the Srotapannas.
Nalinaksha Dutt, 1998
6
Voting Rights Act, section 5 : preclearance standards : ...
an intent to retrogress-than a jurisdiction acting with no intent to dilute. The fact that a plan has a dilutive impact therefore makes it "more probable" that the jurisdiction adopting that plan acted with an intent to retrogress than "it would be  ...
7
Word Master Level Vocabulary Level 8: Seeing and Using Words
Write it on the line. retrorocket retroactive introduce extraterrestrial retrogress retrograde introvert extrasensory 1. A is attached to the front of the spacecraft. 2. An older person may tend to to an earlier age. 3. A life form from another planet is 4.
David L. Bacon, EDCON Publishing Group, 2007
8
Student Vocabulary Companion
Versatile a. return, turn, recur, come after, a. turn down, chicken, introvert, revert regress, trail, retrogress, repeat, resume b. inconstant, adaptable, all-around, b. turn about, convert, extrovert, turn light, mercurial, at hand, flexible around c. fever , ...
Okyere Bonna, 2009
9
The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide ...
guide these people, protecting them morning and night, such that they do not retrogress. Their households shall never suffer from calamity; sickness shall be eradicated; their material possessions shall be abundant and they shall never suffer ...
A. Charles Muller, 1999
10
Flip Dictionary
... withdrawal retreat to worse condition: retrogress retreat, place or attitude of: ivory tower retrench: abridge, curtail, decrease, delete, diminish, economize, eliminate, lessen, omit, reduce, remove, save, shorten, slash retribution: compensation, ...
Barbara Kipfer, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RETROGRESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term retrogress is used in the context of the following news items.
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The June 2015 Priority Dates: Major retrogression for workers and …
Then in May 2015, it retrogressed to July 1, 2007. Now, in June 2015, it is at January 1, 2005.) This means that starting June 1, 2015, people with priority dates ... «Asianjournal.com, May 15»
2
The May 2015 priority dates: 7-year retrogression for Filipino workers!!!
The May 2015 Visa Bulletin provides disappointing news for Filipinos, as the priority dates in the employment based categories (EB-3 and Other Workers) will ... «Philippine Star, Apr 15»
3
EB-5 Retrogresses By Two Years in May 2015 for Nationals of China
The Department of State has released its Visa Bulletin for May 2015 and, as predicted back in October 2014 by Chief of the Visa Control and Reporting Division, ... «JD Supra, Apr 15»
4
Retrogression FAQ for Chinese EB-5 based green card applicants
As you may know, the EB-5 immigrant visa category will retrogress beginning May 2015. Below is a guide to the frequently asked questions we have been ... «Lexology, Apr 15»
5
Retrogression FAQs for Chinese EB-5 Based Green Card Applicants
As you may know, the EB-5 immigrant visa category will retrogress beginning May 2015. Below is a guide to the frequently asked questions we have been ... «The National Law Review, Apr 15»
6
Department Of State Releases April 2015 Visa Bulletin
The cutoff date for applicants in the EB-3 category chargeable to China will retrogress by nearly 10 months to January 1, 2011, which once again is behind the ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Mar 15»
7
EB-5 Visa: Retrogression, Priority Dates and I-526 Petition Approval …
With retrogression looming, it is a good time for a quick primer on priority dates and the information contained on an I-526 petition approval. U.S. federal law ... «The National Law Review, Feb 15»
8
Charles Oppenheim Issues Retrogression Alert for EB-5
It appears retrogression of the EB-5 immigrant visa category will happen during the U.S. government's 2014-2015 fiscal year, the only questions are when such ... «The National Law Review, Oct 14»
9
EB-2 India Retrogression – Visa Office On Priority Dates, Demand …
As Charlie predicted, EB-2 India will retrogress to February 15, 2005 as of November 1, 2014. Individuals born in India with EB-2 priority dates earlier than May 1 ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Oct 14»
10
EB-2 India Retrogresses Significantly in November
The November retrogression is due to high demand in the EB-2 category caused by a significant percentage of EB-3 to EB-2 upgrades by Indian nationals. «JD Supra, Oct 14»
REFERENCE
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