regress

regress

See also: Regress

English

Etymology

(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡɹɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

regress (countable and uncountable, plural regresses)

1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
   • 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books

     Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.

2. The power or liberty of passing back.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Thou shalt have egresse and regresse.

3. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

Synonyms

• retrogress

Coordinate terms

• (permission): ingress, egress

Derived terms

• infinite regress
• Ryle's regress

Verb

regress (third-person singular simple present regresses, present participle regressing, simple past and past participle regressed)

1. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
2. (intransitive, astronomy) To move from east to west.
3. (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

   When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y.

4. (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
   • 2018, Michael Brein, ‎Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Road to Strange: UFOs, Aliens and High Strangeness

     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

• backslide

Antonyms

• advance
• proceed
• progress

Translations

to move backwards to an earlier stage

Bulgarian: движа се назад (dviža se nazad) Catalan: retrocedir (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 退步 (teoi³bou⁶) Mandarin: 退步 (zh) (tuìbù) Min Nan: 退步 (zh-min-nan) (thè-pō͘ / thòe-pō͘) Dutch: teruggaan (nl) French: régresser (fr) Greek: υποστρέφω (el) (ypostréfo) Irish: aischéimnigh, téigh ar gcúl Japanese: 後退する (ja) (kōtai suru), 退歩する (taiho suru) Korean: 퇴보하다 (ko) (toebohada) Lithuanian: grįžimas Macedonian: назадува (nazaduva) Maori: tauheke Polish: uwsteczniać impf, uwsteczniać się impf, cofać (pl) impf Portuguese: regredir, retroceder (pt) Romanian: regresa (ro) Russian: регресси́ровать (ru) n (regressírovatʹ) Spanish: retrogradar (es), retroceder (es)

Related terms

• regression
• regressive

Further reading

• regress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• regress at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• sergers

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Latin regressus (“back step”), from re- (“back”) +‎ gressus (“step”).

Noun

regress

1. regress.

Declension

Declension of regress

nominative	regress
genitive	regressniñ
dative	regresske
accusative	regressni
locative	regresste
ablative	regressten

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN