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   regressive

   /rɪˈɡrɛsɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. returning to a former or less developed state; characterized by regression: "regressive aspects of recent local government reform"
   • ▪ relating to or marked by psychological regression: "a regressive personality"
   • 2. (of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes: "indirect taxes are, as a group, regressive"
   • 3. proceeding from effect to cause or from particular to universal.

   Derivatives

   • 1. regressively adverb
   • 2. regressiveness noun

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