retrogressive

Definitions

Characterized by or involving a return to a former, less developed, or inferior state.

Moving or tending to move backward or in a reverse direction.

Examples

The new policy was widely criticized as a retrogressive step that would undo years of progress in civil rights.

Many historians argue that the regime's retrogressive economic reforms ultimately led to the collapse of the nation's industrial sector.

Synonyms

regressive backward declining deteriorating reactionary reverting degenerate

Antonyms

progressive forward advancing improving developing modernizing evolving