regressively

Definitions

In a manner that returns to a former or less developed state.

In a way that decreases in proportion as the amount subject to taxation increases.

Examples

The tax policy was criticized for being applied regressively, placing a heavier burden on low-income families.

As the project progressed, the team's efficiency began to decline regressively, undoing much of their earlier work.

The software update functioned regressively, causing features that previously worked perfectly to crash.

Synonyms

retrogressively backwardly reversely retrogradely recedingly recurrently atavistically

Antonyms

progressively forwardly advancingly onwardly developmentally improvingly evolutionarily