regress

regress is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man". Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
2. noun. The power or liberty of passing back.
3. intransitive verb. To go back; to return to a former place or state.
4. noun. returning to a former state

   Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion

5. noun. the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
6. verb. go back to bad behavior

   "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

   Synonyms: lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress

7. verb. get worse or fall back to a previous condition

   Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress

8. verb. go back to a previous state

   "We reverted to the old rules"

   Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert

9. verb. go back to a statistical means

Synonyms

regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress, retrograde, retrovert, return, revert

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in regress:

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Common word forms

regressed, regresses, regressing

Words from these letters

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