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Redressive vs Regressive - What's the difference?

redressive | regressive |

As adjectives the difference between redressive and regressive

is that redressive is tending to redress while regressive is .

redressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to redress.
  • (Thomson)
    (Webster 1913)

    regressive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That tends to return, revert or regress.
  • (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
  • Antonyms

    * progressive