Regress

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›s

Origin

(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredi ("to go back"), from re- ("back") + gradi ("to go").

Full definition of regress

Noun

1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
• Frederic HarrisonIts bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
2. The power or liberty of passing back.

Derived terms

• infinite regress

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
2. (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 Y.

Synonyms

• backslide

Antonyms

• proceed
• progress

Related terms

• regression
• regressive