Crossword-Solution: REGRESSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Regressive | a. | Passing back; returning. |
| Regressive | a. | Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “REGRESSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tending to regress | 1 answer |
| Like some taxes | 3 answers |
| Astern | 13 answers |
| back (foremost) | 14 answers |
| Rearward | 14 answers |
| Abaft | 15 answers |
| retrogressively | 15 answers |
| reversionary | 17 answers |
| To the rear | 18 answers |
| back of | 18 answers |
| in back of | 22 answers |
| reversed | 22 answers |
| Aft | 23 answers |
| ABACK | 28 answers |
| retrograde | 30 answers |
| in reverse | 37 answers |
| Backsliding | 39 answers |
| Reactionary | 48 answers |
| AFTER ___ | 66 answers |
| Behind | 78 answers |
| Backward | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REGRESSIVE (5)
The courts and the EEOC, weakened to the point of extinction by the regressive administrations of the eighties, are about as effective as warm spit in enforcing compliance.
This term is preferable, as inherited regressive modifications (degeneration, retrograde metamorphisis, etc.) come under the same head.
Logically his theory proves, as Ray Lankester pointed out, that the struggle for existence may have as its outcome degeneration as well as amelioration: evolution may be regressive as well as progressive.
The behavior of an object in a multi- dimensional space (four, five, six, or more dimensions), actions along a timeline that can be regressive, or in several distinct and unrelated time frames, modeling choices beyond the capability of the human mind-all these, and many more, with practical significance for the survival and development of humankind are acceptable problems for a digital computer.
The cosmological ideas are therefore occupied with the totality of the regressive synthesis, and proceed in antecedentia, not in consequentia.
Quotes with REGRESSIVE (3)
Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s.Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation. And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide.
The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life form. We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extinction and grateful only for tomorrow with perhaps a little less suffering than today. Was this the legacy we would leave our children, a level of anxiety and self-doubt not seen since our simian ancestors cowered in the tallest trees? What kind of world would they rebuild? Would the…
In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were trapped, defaults, mutually committed, left holes everywhere in their lives. When you read their letters to each other it is often necessary to consult the signature in order to be sure which one has done the writing. Their tone about themselves, their mood, is the fatal one of nostalgia--a passive, consuming, repetitive poetry. Sometimes one…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1994–2003).