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Regressive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That tends to return, revert or regress.

    "Some say history repeats itself, that time is cyclical. Others cling to the notion of progress and change over time. Apparently Nancy Walker marches to a different drummer — marches backwards, that is. Her ideas on art and society seem quaint and odd on the one hand and, on the other, petty and regressive."

  2. 2
    Whose rate decreases as the taxed amount increases.
Adjective
  1. 1
    opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state wordnet
  2. 2
    (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regressīvus, equivalent to regress + -ive.

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