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Adjective: regressive  ri'gre-siv
  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

See also: atavistic, backward, retrograde, retrogressive, returning, reverting, throwback, unmodernised [Brit], unmodernized

Antonym: progressive

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