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Retreating vs Regressive - What's the difference?

retreating | regressive | Related terms |

As a verb retreating

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun retreating

is the act of moving back from something; a retreat.

As an adjective regressive is

that tends to return, revert or regress.

retreating

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
  • * 1837 , Thomas Carlyle, ?Henry Duff Traill, The French Revolution: A History (volume 3, page 229)
  • But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!

    regressive

    English

    Adjective

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

    * progressive