单词	retrogression
释义	retrogression noun ret·​ro·​gres·​sion ˌre-trə-ˈgre-shən  1 : regression sense 3 2 : return to a former and less complex level of development or organization Synonyms regression reversion See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences social instability that has led to a retrogression of moral values and standards of decent behavior Recent Examples on the Web Progressives de nos jours seem inordinately attached to retrogression. Kyle Smith, National Review, 8 June 2021 What explains the wide perception of racial retrogression at a time when surveys show that racial attitudes and behaviors have never been better? Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021 For Fantom, his card showed nines of 40 and 39 for his 79, but his win wasn’t official until through retrogression, his score on the eighth handicap hole, was a stroke better better than that of Patterson Mill’s Brandon Palen, who also shot 79. Randy Mcroberts, baltimoresun.com, 24 Oct. 2020 This duplicity is, as the museum called it, part of the American paradox: a museum that represents both stagnancy and change, advancement and retrogression, black America and the rest. Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2019 Such were the devolutions and betrayals in those days, and retrogressions to the ways of shame. Lance Morrow, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018 The plan will avoid retrogression in the position of racial minorities and language minorities as defined in the Voting Rights Act with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise. Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2018 See More Word History First Known Use 1604, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Medical Definition retrogression noun ret·​ro·​gres·​sion ˌre-trə-ˈgresh-ən  : a reversal in development or condition: as a : return to a former and less complex level of development or organization b : subsidence or decline of symptoms or manifestations of a disease retrogression noun as in reversion the act or an instance of going back to an earlier and lower level especially of intelligence or behavior social instability that has led to a retrogression of moral values and standards of decent behavior Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance reversion regression relapse decline atavism degeneration backslide lapse return nondevelopment Antonyms & Near Antonyms evolution development advancement progression growth maturation gestation ripening See More
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