- returning, reverting - tending to return to an earlier state
Antonym: progressive (indirect, via regressive)
- backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting - a failure to maintain a higher state
--1 is a kind of failure
--1 has particulars: recidivismDerived form: verb revert1
- revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
--1 is one way to change by reversal, turn, reverse
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun reversion5, noun reverting1
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- revert - undergo reversion, as in a mutation
--2 is one way to mutate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s