retrogressive
- s going from better to worse
- Sir Alec, for example, dropped his insistence on a privy council to guarantee against retrogressive changes in the constitution.
- How did we who wanted change manage to be sooooooooo retrogressive? AT least we knew where McCain stood on issues - no doubt about it.
- I am a believer in taking Islam in its real, progressive form--a much broader futuristic view rather than a dogmatic and retrogressive one.