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Regressive   /rəgrˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Regressive

adjective
1.
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases.
2.
Opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state.





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"Regressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... works, and are only warranted in assuming his existence as a certain kind of cause necessary to account for a certain state of things, of whose reality our faculties are supposed to inform us. The affirmation of a God being thus a regressive inference from the existence of a special class of effects to the existence of a special character of cause, it is evident that the whole argument hinges on the fact,—Does a state of things really exist such as is only possible through ...
— A Candid Examination of Theism • George John Romanes


Words linked to "Regressive" :   returning, retrogressive, tax, backward, retrograde, reverting, regress, atavistic, unmodernized, taxation, unmodernised, revenue enhancement, throwback, progressive


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