regress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
human-sciences
law
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
property
psychology
sciences
statistics
Etymology: (verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”). Doublet of regressus.
Inflected forms:
form: regresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: regresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: regressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: regressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: regressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
gloss: The power or liberty of passing back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.
gloss: The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.
gloss: To move in the retrograde direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.
gloss: To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They regressed me, putting me under hypnosis. Then, through the hypnosis, they found out that our car was abducted right off the road and into a craft.
Synonyms: retrogress
Related words: regression
regressive
Derived words: age regress
infinite regress
ingress, egress, and regress
regress argument
Ryle's regress
pet regress
regressand
regresser
regressor
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: рэгрэсі́раваць
roman: rehresíravacʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: движа се назад
roman: dviža se nazad
lang: Catalan
word: retrocedir
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 退步
roman: teoi³ bou⁶
lang: Chinese
word: 退步
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 退步
roman: tuìbù
lang: Dutch
word: teruggaan
lang: Finnish
word: taantua
lang: Finnish
word: regressoida
lang: Finnish
word: regressoitua
lang: French
word: régresser
lang: German
word: sich zurückbilden
lang: Greek
word: υποστρέφω
roman: ypostréfo
lang: Hindi
word: अवनति
roman: avanti
lang: Irish
word: aischéimnigh
lang: Irish
word: téigh ar gcúl
lang: Irish
word: cúlaigh
lang: Japanese
word: 後退する
roman: kōtai suru
lang: Japanese
word: 退歩する
roman: taiho suru
lang: Korean
word: 퇴보하다
roman: toebohada
lang: Lithuanian
word: grįžimas
lang: Macedonian
word: назадува
roman: nazaduva
lang: Māori
word: tauheke
lang: Polish
word: uwsteczniać
lang: Polish
word: uwsteczniać się
lang: Polish
word: cofać
lang: Portuguese
word: regredir
lang: Portuguese
word: retroceder
lang: Romanian
word: regresa
lang: Russian
word: регресси́ровать
roman: regressírovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: retrogradar
lang: Spanish
word: retroceder
lang: Ukrainian
word: регресува́ти
roman: rehresuváty