RETROGRESS Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

retrogress

verb

ˌre-trə-ˈgres

as in to revert

to go back to a previous and usually lower state or level the quality of research at the university lab has begun to retrogress since the massive budget cuts went into effect

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Recent Examples of retrogress This annual limit, and the intense global demand has created significant back logs, particularly for applicants from India and China, whose EB-2 priority dates have continually retrogressed. —

Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026 After the 1960s, after the switch in—the shift in the strategy to gaining political clout, a lot of those trends stalled, slowed, even retrogressed. —

WSJ, 3 July 2017

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Rulings against the map could revert Kansas City’s congressional district back to the boundaries lawmakers approved in 2022, easing a path for Cleaver to win a 12th term in Congress.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
Technically the state could revert back to its original 2022 map with one majority-Black district or redraw a new map entirely.

— Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026