Definition of Retrogress

1. Verb. Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.

Exact synonyms: Regress, Retrograde
Generic synonyms: Decline, Worsen
Specialized synonyms: Drop Off, Fall Back, Fall Behind, Lose, Recede
Antonyms: Progress
Derivative terms: Regressive, Retrogression, Retrogressive

2. Verb. Go back to bad behavior. "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Exact synonyms: Fall Back, Lapse, Recidivate, Regress, Relapse
Generic synonyms: Regress, Retrovert, Return, Revert, Turn Back
Derivative terms: Lapse, Recidivism, Relapse, Relapsing

Definition of Retrogress

1. n. Retrogression.

Definition of Retrogress

1. Verb. (intransitive) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To go backwards; to retreat. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To return to bad behaviour; to relapse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retrogress

1. [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrogress

retrograde inversions
retrograde memory
retrograde metamorphosis
retrograde motion
retrograde neurotransmitter
retrograde pyelography
retrograded
retrogradely
retrogrades
retrograding
retrogradingly
retrography
retrogreen
retrogreening
retrogress
retrogressed
retrogresses
retrogressing
retrogression
retrogressions
retrogressive
retrogressively
retrohippocampal
retrohyoid bursa
retroinguinal space
retroinhibition
retroiridian
retrojection

Literary usage of Retrogress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"ness retrogress and the ... or may retrogress owing to the influence of education or blindness; and as transient mental states without detectably affecting ..."

2. Mind in Evolution by Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse (1901)
"... complexity, or activity, involves retrogress in 1 fertility ; and progress in fertility involves retrogress in bulk, ' complexity, or activity. ..."

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