regress

Meanings

Noun

• The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
• The power or liberty of passing back.
• In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

Verb

• To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
• To move from east to west.
• To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
• To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.

Related

Similar words

• retrogress
• backslide

Opposite words

• advance
• proceed
• progress

Origin

• (verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior, from re- + gradior.